OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14544902
FONTAINE TRUCK EQUIPMENT CO.
BIRMINGHAM, AL·
Event description
Employee killed by overturned forklift
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:15 p.m. on October 31, 1988, Employee #1 was driving a forkli ft to a local filling station to get fuel. The travel procedure was to drive dow n the shoulder of the road in front of the plant in the opposite direction to th e traffic. The left rear tire of the forklift went off the shoulder of the road and caused the forklift to roll over into a drainage ditch that was perpendicula r to the road. The forklift landed on Employee #1 and killed him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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