FACTS

• Unprotected rebar dowels
• Reliance on mushroom caps, which don?t protect workers from impalement.
• Improper wooden trough installment
• Inadequate precautions when working over dowel covers.
• Inattention to other impalement hazards besides rebar

• Rash vehicular movement - Injury to workmen.
• Reversing of the vehicle - Run over on workmen.
• Unloading of sharp edged Rebars - Cut Injury.
• Improper stacking - Trip, Fall & Injury

STATS

• According to OSHA statistics, 61% of construction accidents can be attributed to impalement from rebar.
• In 2020, the construction industry tragically […]

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