OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14570873
TERRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
DELTA, OH·
Event description
Employee crushed by overturned forklift
Investigation abstract
On April 29, 1987, Employee #1 was driving a Clark forklift truck down a long ou tdoor ramp at a fertilizer plant. The forklift truck was unloaded at the time. T he ramp Employee #1 was driving down had a very bumpy and uneven surface. Employ ee #1 lost control of the forklift truck and it overturned, crushing him as he a ttempted to jump from it. The brakes and steering of the forklift truck were fou nd to be defective and unauthorized additional counterweights had been to the fo rklift truck.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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