OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298418
WAYNE DIVISION DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC.
SALISBURY, MD·
Event description
Employee injured as forklift falls from trailer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating an industrial forklift truck inside a 42 ft long van-t as then resting on an angle with an opening between it and the ground, where Emp loyee #1 was lying unconscious. He sustained a broken left clavicle, a sprained right wrist, and a sore left knee. ype trailer. The trailer truck driver was told by a person standing alongside th e trailer that the forklift had finished loading and was no longer inside the tr ailer. The trailer truck driver then started to pull away from the dock as the f orklift was still backing out of the trailer. Employee #1 could not stop and the forklift fell from the rear of the trailer onto an adjacent blacktop drive ramp . Employee #1 was thrown out of the forklift onto the blacktop. The bottom rear of the forklift's counterweight hit the ground first, then the forklift rolled o ver on its side against a concrete wall alongside the truck ramp. The forklift w
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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