OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14241046
SERVICE TIRE & BATTERY, INC.
TULSA, OK·
Event description
Operator killed when forklift overturns
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:45 a.m., Employee #1, a forklift operator, was returning fro ately trained and appeared to be immature. The employer had not enforced its for klift safety procedures. m fueling a forklift at a neighboring convenience store. He was traveling uphill on a public road at a high rate of speed, 10 mph, before making a left turn int o a drive that sloped downward. After slowing down slightly, he again accelerate d. As he started to go to the left, the forklift hit a depression and bounced in the air. When it landed on the pavement, the forklift turned sharply to the lef t on its two right wheels. The 18-year-old employee apparently either jumped or was thrown off the overturning forklift and his head was struck and crushed by t he lift's overhead rack. He was found dead at the scene. Employee #1 was inadequ
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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