OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14202444
AMPUTATED,WAREHOUSE,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,LOST CONTROL,ANKLE,FOOT
Event description
LEFT FOOT AND ANKLE CRUSHED BETWEEN FORK LIFT FRAME AND POST
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING A CROWN NARROW AISLE STAND-UP ELECTRIC FORK LIFT. HE W MPLOYEE #1 TO THE PORTLAND ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER. ON MAY 1, 1987, HIS FOOT WA S AMPUTATED JUST ABOVE THE ANKLE. AS MOVING PALLETIZED GOODS FROM THE RECEIVING AREA TO SOME STORAGE (RACKS) SHELV ES IN THE PLANNED INVENTORY RETRIEVAL (PIR) SECTION OF THE WAREHOUSE. EMPLOYEE # 1 HAD JUST PICKED UP A TWO-PALLET-HIGH LOAD AND WAS PROCEEDING DOWN THE MAIN AIS LE IN A NORTHEAST DIRECTION WITH THE LOAD TO THE REAR. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN R IGHT INTO DOOR (AISLE) NUMBER 8, HE APPERANTLY LOST CONTROL OF THE LIFT AND WAS THROWN PARTIALLY OUT OF THE BACK OF THE LIFT TRUCK. HIS LEFT FOOT WAS CRUSHED BE TWEEN THE LIFT TRUCK FRAME AND THE CONCRETE WALL OR STEEL POST ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER (SIDE) OF DOOR 8. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ARRIVED WITHIN 8 MINUTES AND TOOK E
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 859
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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