OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14464770
EJECTED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,BACK,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LEG
Event description
Employee injured in 27 ft fall from forklift platform
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on April 25, 1985, Employee #1 was helping to erect a Morgan scaffold. He was riding on a forklift platform with three 9 ft long sec tions of scaffold when the forklift ran over a piece of miter block. Employee #1 was thrown 27 ft to the ground. He suffered arm, leg, and back injuries, for wh ich he was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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