OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295059
SPINE,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,TRIPPED,OFF LOADING,PALLET,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,CONTUSION
Event description
Employee killed when metal pallet falls on his back
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on February 18, 1989, Employee #1 had elevated a 92- y 5 ft 8 in. tall and weighed 318 pounds. lb metal pallet 5 ft on the forks of an industrial truck. He dismounted and was unloading 30-in. by 5-in. by 7-in. bales of synthetic rubber, each weighing 75 l b, into a 5-ft-high by 4-ft-wide by 5-ft-long metal box. One of the bales of rub ber fell onto the floor and under the forks on the driver's side of the truck. E mployee #1 stumbled over it. As he fell under the forks he apparently grabbed fo r the empty pallet that was still elevated on the forks, dislodging it. Employee #1 fell face forward onto the concrete floor. The pallet fell onto his back, ca using spinal cord contusions. Employee #1 died the same day. He was approximatel
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 62 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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