OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14449482
CRAWFORD MERZ CO.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN·
Event description
Employee's skull fractured in fall from forklift
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on March 28, 1986, Employee #1 was standing in a wood en trash box suspended approximately 64 in. above the ground by a Lull forklift. The forklift was moving in reverse when the box fell from the elevated forks, s truck Employee #1 on the back of the head, and threw him to the ground. His fore head struck the ground and he was hospitalized with a concussion and fractured s kull. The box was not secured to the forklift, and it lacked guarding on one sid e.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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