OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14496608
ST. FRANCIS COUNTY FARMERS ASSOCIATION
PALESTINE, AR·
Event description
Employee killed when pinned under overturned forklift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Clark forklift at an excessive rate of speed when he made a sharp left turn while braking to a stop. He was thrown off the right sid e of the forklift onto the concrete floor. The right rear section of the forklif t's overhead protection support struck him in the head and chest, pinning him. E mployee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.