Injury Type: Fractured leg
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Core Activity: Structural concrete forming
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Sep
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ID Number: 2015156680091
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A carpenter was stripping a concrete wall gang form at a residential highrise building. As he disassembled the attached work platform, he fell off the form, landing on the concrete floor about 2 metres below.
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Injury Type: Concussion; soft-tissue injuries
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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-Sep
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ID Number: 2015110750173
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A young worker fell 6 feet from a scaffold.
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Injury Type: Fatal (1 worker); injury to head (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Electrical work / House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
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Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Aug
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ID Number: 2015173550131
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A utility pole was being erected using a rough terrain forklift. The forklift became unstable and overturned, injuring the operator. Another worker was fatally struck by the utility pole.
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Injury Type: Bruising to lower body
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Core Activity: Masonry
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Location: Interior B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Aug
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ID Number: 2015156240185
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A young worker was accessing a scaffold work platform from an extension ladder. While transitioning from the ladder, the worker slipped and fell about 4 metres to grade.
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Injury Type: Fractured leg, possible head injury
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Core Activity: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Aug
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ID Number: 2015174000033
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Two workers were in an articulating, self-propelled, elevating work platform, hanging Christmas lights about 15 feet above asphalt ground, when the work platform overturned. One worker was injured.
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Injury Type: Fractured vertebrae
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Core Activity: Bridge, overpass, or viaduct construction or repair
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Location: Northern B.C.
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Date of Incident: 2015-Aug
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ID Number: 2015130750034
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A young worker was setting decking material on a forestry bridge under construction. While walking backwards, the worker fell off the open end panel of the bridge to a rocky creek 18 feet below.
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Injury Type: Fractured and lacerated arm
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Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering / Pressure washing
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Aug
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ID Number: 2015147280046
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A worker was about 12 feet up a 20-foot aluminum CSA Type 1 ladder pressure-washing a metal handrail with a 3000-psi pressure washer. Another worker, on the ground, was manually stabilizing the ladder. The top of the ladder began to slip to the right. The ladder then twisted counter-clockwise and fell to the right onto the ground. The worker on the ladder also fell to the ground, landing on his feet and then rolling backward.
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Injury Type: Undetermined injuries to leg
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Core Activity: Traffic control
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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: 2015154960045
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A traffic control person (a young worker) was struck by a stopped vehicle, which had been propelled forward by another vehicle that struck it from behind.
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Injury Type: Fractured ankle, soft-tissue injuries
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Core Activity: Framing or residential forming
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Location: Lower Mainland
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Date of Incident: 2015-Jul
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ID Number: 2015161950103
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A young worker was standing on a work platform, built within a wood-framed scaffold, while installing plywood sheathing on the ceiling of a barn under construction. The worker fell 13 feet, 10 inches to a concrete surface at grade.
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