105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14291744

IND TRK OPERATOR,VEHICLE IN GEAR,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,UNMANNED

Event
IND TRK OPERATOR,VEHICLE IN GEAR,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,UNMANNED
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14291744
Report ID
355118

Event description

Employee crushed and killed between forklift and lumber pile

Investigation abstract

At 3:10 p.m. on May 16, 1989, Employee #1 dismounted the forklift he was operati ng and stood in front of its load of dry lumber. The forklift drifted forward, s triking Employee #1 and crushing him between the load and the remaining stack of dry lumber. He was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 32 M

    Nature of injury
    2
    Part of body
    5
    Event type
    2
    Source
    27
    Occupation code
    843
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.