OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394019
IND TRK OPERATOR,DITCH,WORK RULES,ROPS,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,SEAT BELT,INATTENTION,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed by ROPS when forklift overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, age 19, was driving a forklift on a blacktop street. He had a cup o f coffee with him. The forklift ran into a ditch and overturned. Employee #1 was crushed by the headache (overhead cage) bars and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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