Injury Type: Disorientation, numbness (1 worker)
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| Core Activity: Paving services or asphalt manufacture |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018181740003 |
| A young worker was climbing a 6-foot metal ladder to assist a co-worker in the cleaning and maintenance of an asphalt mixer. The young worker, who was wearing a hard hat, was struck in the head by a piece of asphalt (6 to 8 inches long) and fell about 3 feet to the ground. |
Injury Type: Crush injury to leg (1 worker)
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| Core Activity: Framing or residential forming |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018166970002 |
| Two workers were cutting the metal banding on a load of wooden structural beams. When the banding was cut, the load fell apart and struck one of the workers. |
Injury Type: Fractured vertebrae
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| Core Activity: Concrete reinforcing |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018180940002 |
| A worker was tying reinforcing steel next to a suspended concrete delivery pipe located inside a previously buried larger pipe. The delivery pipe apparatus became dislodged and dropped about 4 feet, striking the worker. |
Injury Type: Amputated fingers
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| Core Activity: Finishing carpentry |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018178110003 |
| A worker was ripping narrow cedar shims on a table saw when his hand contacted the blade. |
Injury Type: Fractured wrist, injury to leg
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| Core Activity: Steep slope roofing |
| Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018154960006 |
| A young worker exited a window opening onto a portion of sloped roof that had standing seam metal roofing installed. The worker slipped and fell 14 feet to grade. |
Injury Type: Temporary loss of consciousness, bruising
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| Core Activity: Structural concrete forming / Concrete placing, finishing, surfacing, or repair |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018161950001 |
| A worker was placing concrete into formwork with the end hose from a concrete pump truck when a blockage occurred in the concrete delivery system. When the blockage cleared, the hose whipped and struck the worker. |
Injury Type: Close call
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| Core Activity: Concrete placing, finishing, surfacing, or repair / Crane operation |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Jan |
ID Number: 2018163750001 |
| While a tower crane was lifting two power trowels into a worksite, a float disk fell about 100 feet into the worksite. |
Injury Type: Multiple fractures
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| Core Activity: Framing or residential forming |
| Location: Interior B.C. |
| Date of Incident: 2017-Dec |
ID Number: 2017163050026 |
| While stripping concrete formwork, a young worker fell about 8 feet from a ladder to the ground below. |
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