OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14523286
CHRYSLER CORPORATION
TWINSBURG, OH·
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BETWEEN A FORK LIFT AND POWER PRESS
Investigation abstract
SOME MACHINE REPAIRMEN WERE INSTALLING THE UNDER-DRIVE MECHANISM ON A CLEARING P RESS WHEN THE FORKS OF THE LIFT TRUCK TILTED FORWARD. THIS ALLOWED THE DRIVE UNI T TO SLIP FORWARD, WHICH FORCED THE LIFT TRUCK BACKWARDS. THE OPERATOR (EMPLOYEE #1) WAS CRUSHED AGAINST THE ADJACENT PRESS.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.