FACTS
1. Factors that can lead to impalement incidents include:- 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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