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Injury Type: Bruised upper and lower body
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Core Activity: Paving services or asphalt manufacture
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015129162270
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A worker picked up a can of aerosol paint and the can exploded in his hands. The top blew off and the can acted like a projectile, hitting the worker in the torso and knocking him to the ground.
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Injury Type: Penetration wound to upper body
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Core Activity: Deck, railing, or fence installation
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015158910051
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A young worker was using a pneumatic nail gun to fasten a wooden handrail when he was struck by a 3-inch-long coil nail that failed to penetrate the wooden railing.
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Injury Type: Fractured vertebrae
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Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015158880105
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A worker fell about 6 feet from a rolling scaffold while texturing a ceiling.
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Injury Type: Undetermined injury to leg
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Core Activity: Drywalling or acoustic board installation
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Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015120030096
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A worker fell 10 feet from a work platform from which he was performing drywall activities. The work platform was resting on an aluminum stepladder and upper-floor balcony. The ladder was placed on top of a baker’s scaffold.
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Injury Type: Knee injury (1 worker); shoulder injury (1 worker); sore back (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015161480114
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Four workers were working from an angular stirrup, swing-stage work platform. The platform experienced a mechanical failure, and the workers on the platform were pitched forward into the concrete face of a dam spillway. Three of the workers, including one young worker, were injured.
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Injury Type: Fractured leg, fractures to upper and lower body, internal injuries
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Core Activity: Low slope roofing
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015143950099
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A roofer (young worker) fell about 30 feet from a roof to grade.
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Injury Type: Facial injuries including fractured bone
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Core Activity: Paving services or asphalt manufacture
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Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jun
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ID Number: 2015110750154
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A worker was punched by a co-worker.
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Injury Type: Injection injury
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Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering
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Location: Northern B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jun
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ID Number: 2015170090015
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A young worker was trying to clear a blockage in the tip of a paint gun when paint was inadvertently injected into the worker’s finger.
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