OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300131
J. T. MASONRY INC.
JESSUP, MD·
Event description
Employee bruised in fall from pallet on high lift forks
Investigation abstract
A mason's high lift fork truck was being used to raise 12 ft long, 400 lb cinder no clear-cut policy and/or enforcement of a prohibition against riding up and d own on the high lift forks. block lintels one at a time, to a height of 35 ft above the ground. Seven out of eight lintels had been lifted without anyone riding up or down on the pallet. W hen the eighth lintel was to be lifted, Employee #1 decided to ride up with it. Two coworkers, a laborer and a mason, joined him on the pallet for the descent, without objection from the foreman. About halfway down, the fork carriage hung u p momentarily and then dropped abruptly until it fetched up on the chains and st opped. The coworkers jumped off, but Employee #1 was flipped off and landed on b lock rubble, bruising his left side and spraining his left arm. The employer had
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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