OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14554406
UNCONSCIOUSNESS,HEART ATTACK,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK
Event description
APPARENT HEART ATTACK WHILE OPERATING FORK LIFT
Investigation abstract
AFTER EMPLOYEE #1 HAND LOADED SOME SALT BAGS ONTO A TRUCK, HE BOARDED HIS FORK L ROM HIS FORK LIFT AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE PARKED FORK TRUCK. HE CAME TO REST ON THE FLOOR WITH HIS LOWER BODY ENTANGLED IN HIS FORK LIFT. CPR WAS ADMINISTERE D BUT TO NO AVAIL. IFT, TOYOTA-TYPE G, S/N-40FG18106-97, AND DROVE BACK INTO THE WAREHOUSE TO RETUR N THE PALLET TO ITS STACK. HE RAISED THE PALLET TO MAKE A RIGHT TURN TO RETURN T HE PALLET. THERE WAS A LOADED PALLET ON THE FLOOR BEYOND THE POINT WHERE EMPLOYE E #1 WOULD BE TURNING NORTH TO RETURN THE PALLET TO ITS STACK. INSTEAD OF TURNIN G NORTH, THE FORK TRUCK CONTINUED WEST, STRIKING THE PALLET ON THE FLOOR. THE FO RK TRUCK CAME TO REST WITHIN 2 FEET OF ANOTHER FORK TRUCK, TYPE YALE S/N M222201 . APPARENTLY EMPLOYEE #1 BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS JUST BEFORE H E WOULD HAVE TURNED NORTH. AFTER HE HE STRUCK THE PALLET ON THE FLOOR, HE FELL F
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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