OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14513907
HEART,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STORAGE RACK
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CAUGHT BETWEEN ORDER PICKER AND RACK
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Raymond Model 162 order picker. She had collected se other internal organs. The order picker was normally operated parallel to the ra cks, but she hit the rack at approximately 60 degrees from parallel. veral small cartons on a pallet being carried on the forks and was transporting them to a temporary storage rack on the west side of the cutting area. She was t o place the pallet on the floor storage level in the bottom of the storage rack. The operator's control platform was located in front of the fork mast between t he mast and the forks. She stood at the controls facing the mast with her back t o the load. As Employee #1 approached the rack, she drove the lift into it. The first level of the rack caught her across the back crushing her chest against th e face of the picker controls resulting in extensive rupturing of her heart and
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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