OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14325344
WESTVACO CORPORATION
TYRONE, PA·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between door cover and platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on a work platform that was properly secured to the mas t of a Hyster space save forklift truck, model #S70B, serial #B40-2484P. The cow orker manning the forklift moved it into position so that Employee #1 could take down the cover from a rollup door. For some reason the forklift moved forward, crushing Employee #1 between the cover of the overhead door and the work platfor m and killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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