OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298657
LOADING,CARPENTER,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,STRUCK BY,ELBOW,MOTOR VEHICLE
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED DUE TO FALL AND STRUCK BY CABINETS
Investigation abstract
A carpentry crew was moving cabinets from the ground to a balcony above using a fell onto the employee and crushed his elbow. He was hospitalized. forklift. The cabinets were placed onto a platform with guard rails on three sid es and a chain on the fourth side. The forklift picked up the platform with the loaded cabinets and the employee stepped onto the platform to ride with the load . Neither the platform nor the cabinets were secured to the forks or mast. A mot orist stopped and distracted the forklift operator by complaining that the crew had blocked traffic. As the operator turned around in the cab of the forklift to address the motorist, he stuck the tilt lever. The forks tilted forward and the employee fell from the platform to the ground below. The platform and cabinets
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 554
- Human factor
- 5
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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