OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221357510

YSC CLEANING LLC

DADEVILLE, AL· 2021-05-12T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Arm, Crushed, Equipment Operator, Forearm, Forklift, Hand, Industrial Truck, Instantaneous amputation, Lost Control, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, PIV, Partial Amputation, Pinned, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Struck Against, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 561720
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345321020
Employer profile: YSC CLEANING LLC
Summary number: 221357510
Report ID: 0418600

Event description

Employee amputates forearm when pinned between two PIVs

Investigation abstract

At 12:35 p.m. on May 12, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a janitorial service was tying a chain to the back of a forklift powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee was assisting a coworker moving the PIV after it ran off a concrete pad and became stuck. The crew was planned on tying the chain to another PIV to try to pull the stuck forklift free. The coworker who worked for the host employer got on the second PIV to back it closer to the stuck forklift. The PIV backed up faster then the coworker expected and struck the stuck forklift pinning the employee by the arm between the PIVs. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputation from his left mid forearm forward.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 54 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
889

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