Injury Type: Penetrating wound
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Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016173250045
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A worker at a new multi-residential construction site was installing joist hangers with a pneumatic nail gun when a hanger nail was discharged into his body.
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Injury Type: Soft-tissue injury to ankle
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Core Activity: Traffic control
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016175380070
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A traffic control person (TCP) was stopping traffic. The TCP tried to stop a motorist who was swerving around a stopped vehicle. One of the TCP’s feet was run over by the vehicle.
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Injury Type: Stab wounds
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Core Activity: General labour supply
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016165370035
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Two workers, one a young worker, were staying in the staff camping area of a music festival. The workers had completed their shift and were waiting for bus transportation. The young worker was stabbed by the other worker. Police are investigating.
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Injury Type: Close call
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Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction
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Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016171900046
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A building restoration company started extensive demolition/renovation on the balconies of a multi-storey apartment building. The balconies consist of two parts metal railing and one part concrete balcony wall. A worker removed the metal handrail section of three balconies, leaving the three concrete walls (each 10 feet long, 40 inches high, and 2.75 inches thick) in place. An abatement worker started to work on one of the intact exterior walls where the metal railing had been attached. As he did so, the free-standing concrete wall fell outwards through the shrink wrap and down about 70 feet to the lawn below. The employer secured the workplace and immediately removed the two remaining free-standing concrete walls. There was no connection between each concrete wall and the balcony slab. No workers were injured.
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Injury Type: Electric shock
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Core Activity: Plumbing, heating, vent, residential air conditioning, or central vacuum system installation or repair
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016160850015
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A worker received an electrical shock when he inadvertently cut into a 1.25-inch electrical conduit containing an energized 208-volt, 70-amp 3-phase conductor. The worker was using a reciprocating saw to cut black iron waste water pipe when the blade contacted the adjacent electrical conduit.
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Injury Type: Close call
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Core Activity: Low slope roofing
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jul
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ID Number: 2016136050023
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Two workers were setting up a 32-foot aluminum extension ladder. The ladder contacted the neutral and primary 7.2-kV overhead power line. The two workers received an electric shock.
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Injury Type: Broken ribs, bruising
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Core Activity: Framing or residential forming
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jun
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ID Number: 2016114550039
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A young worker slipped and fell about 9 feet while walking with a 4×8 sheet of plywood on a floor section under construction.
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Injury Type: Fractured vertebra
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Core Activity: Plumbing, heating, vent, residential air conditioning, or central vacuum system installation or repair
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2016-Jun
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ID Number: 2016165870019
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A worker was climbing a ladder to a mechanical room. The ladder slipped out at the bottom and the worker fell about 9 feet to the concrete floor below.
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