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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14464770

EJECTED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,BACK,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LEG

Event
EJECTED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,BACK,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LEG
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14464770
Report ID
551800

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

  1. #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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