OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14314322
IND TRK OPERATOR,HEART ATTACK
Event description
Lift truck operator dies of heart attack
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a lift truck operator, was loading a truck with pallets of cardboar d. He pulled up to the stack of pallets, raised the forks to lift the top stack, put the truck in neutral, and got off the truck and fell to the ground face dow n. A coworker found him and called for help. Employee #1 had died of a heart att ack.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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