OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14198709
WYOMING CONCRETE INDUSTRIES, INC.
SALISBURY, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED BY FALLING FORK ATTACHMENT
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Disco Side-O-Matic hydraulic unloader that was mount ed on a flat bed truck. He was unloading cubes of concrete blocks from the truck . He had unloaded seven cubes and was raising the forks to unload the eighth cub e. Employee #1 raised the forks, which were attached to a block and hook on a wi re rope. He raised the block to the trolley of the boom. The block was pulled ti ght into the trolley. The block turned sideways, allowing the forks to slide out of the hook and fall on Employee #1. Employee #1 sustained severe head lacerati ons, a fractured wrist, and injured his back.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators (859)
- Human factor
- POSITION INAPROPRIATE FOR TASK (10)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.