OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14510838
EMBANKMENT,IND TRK OPERATOR,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,DRAGGED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,INEXPERIENCE,LOST CONTROL,RUN OVER,SLOPE
Event description
Employee killed in forklift accident on road
Investigation abstract
A partner in a company building a prefabricated house rented an 18 ft flatbed tr ched a sharp curve, the forklift came around the truck and struck a rock embankm ent on the other side of the road. Employee #1 was thrown between the forklift a nd the embankment. The forklift dragged him a short distance before it stopped, facing the opposite direction, with its front tires atop Employee #1's head. He was declared dead at the scene. Causal factors for this accident include Employe e #1's inexperience and the terrain. uck and a forklift to deliver materials to the construction site. The partner hi red Employee #1, age 20, and three other day laborers to help him. An 18-wheel r ig delivered the material to a parking lot near the site and a rental company de livered the forklift. The employees used the forklift to transfer the material f rom the 18-wheel rig to the flatbed truck. They then drove the truck and forklif t up a hill to the construction site and unloaded the materials. On the way back to the parking lot, the partner and three laborers were in the truck heading do wnhill and Employee #1 was driving the forklift behind them. As the truck approa
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 20
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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