OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497135

BLOCKS,WORK RULES,SLIP,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALLING OBJECT,JACK,UNSTABLE POSITION

1989-05-01T00:00:00

Event: BLOCKS,WORK RULES,SLIP,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALLING OBJECT,JACK,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14497135
Report ID: 627100

Event description

Employee killed when forklift slips off jack

Investigation abstract

Employee #1, the shop foreman, apparently raised a forklift with an inappropriat e jack. While he was underneath the forklift, it slipped off the jack; he was cr ushed and killed. Employee #1 failed to put blocks underneath the forklift. Ther e were no witnesses to the accident.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 49 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
27

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
2

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