OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14321129

UNSECURED,WORK RULES,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT

1987-02-04T00:00:00

Event: UNSECURED,WORK RULES,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14321129
Report ID: 317000

Event description

Employee killed when struck by falling forklift

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was sitting on a forklift truck that was being transferred from a fl at trailer to a tilt bed truck. The tilt bed truck was moved away from the flat trailer, and its bed was tilted to lower the forklift down to a group of workers . When the bed was tilted, the forklift began to slip off the back of the bed. O ne of the workers on the ground told Employee #1 to jump off the forklift. As he did so, the forklift fell off the back of the bed and rolled over onto Employee #1, killing him.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 45 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
27

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
8

Task assigned
1

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