OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14484240
J. BECKER & SONS INC.
ALBANY, NY·
Event description
Employee killed when pinned by falling forklift
Investigation abstract
On May 6, 1986, Employee #1, age 19, was operating a Clark forklift truck on a l oading dock of a building. He and a coworker, who was also driving a forklift, w ere trying to see who could come nearest to the edge of the dock with his vehicl e when Employee #1's forklift fell or was backed off the edge of the dock. He wa s pinned under the forklift truck and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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