OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14214621
CONSOLIDATED SYSTEMS INC
MEMPHIS, TN·
Event description
FORKLIFT ROLLED INTO EMPLOYEE; LEG INJURED
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DRIVING AN UNLOADED FORKLIFT THROUGH THE PLANT WHEN ANOTHER EMPL OYEE JOKINGLY SLID A BOARD UNDER THE WHEELS. ANGERED BY CONSTANT TEASING BY THIS EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYEE #1 DISMOUNTED THE FORKLIFT AND APPROACHED THE OTHER EMPLOYEE . A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT, DURING WHICH THE LIFT ROLLED BACKWARDS, STRIKING AND ROLL ING ONTO EMPLOYEE #1. HE WAS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT METHODIST HOSPITAL AT THE TIME OF THIS INSPECTION. HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR SEVERE INJURIES TO HIS LE G.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 5
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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