OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14198725
KNEE,AMPUTATED,IND TRK OPERATOR,BRAKE,PINNED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,TRACTOR TRAILER,INATTENTION,LEG
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN PINNED BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND TRUCK
Investigation abstract
On June 23, 1989, Employee #1 was operating an industrial truck (forklift) outdo #1's right leg was amputated in surgery approximately 3.5 weeks after the accid ent. The employee died 30 days after the accident from right lower extremity tra uma with complications. ors. He stopped the forklift, dismounted, and walked around the rear of the fork lift to climb up into the cab of a tractor-trailer truck to move the tractor-tra iler. When Employee #1 dismounted, he did not set the forklift's emergency brake . The forklift was loaded with empty soft drink cans approximately 8 feet high. The forklift was stopped on a hardtop surface with a grade of 2.5 to 3.0 degrees . As Employee #1 stepped up into the truck cab, the forklift was moving backward s. His right leg, in the knee area, was pinned between the rear counter weight o f the forklift and the steel running-board step of the tractor-trailer. Employee
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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