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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14292205

IND TRK OPERATOR,RAMP,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,BACKING UP,OVERTURN

Event
IND TRK OPERATOR,RAMP,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,BACKING UP,OVERTURN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14292205
Report ID
355116

Event description

Employee injured when forklift overturns on top of him

Investigation abstract

At 1:15 p.m. on October 5, 1988, Employee #1 was backing a fork truck down a loa ding ramp. The truck ran off the side of the ramp and overturned on top of him. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 22 M

    Nature of injury
    1
    Part of body
    16
    Event type
    1
    Source
    30
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    12
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

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