OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221364243
WALMART, INC.
MACCLENNY, FL·
Event description
Forklift operator dies after driving into elevated pallet
Investigation abstract
At 9:41 a.m. on June 20, 2021, an employee was working as a heavy equipment to a metropolitan hospital, where he died later that same day. The medical examiner assigned his cause of death to be blunt impact trauma, mainly involving the torso. operator for a nationwide big box retailer. He was working in a distribution center. He was operating a stand-up type powered industrial truck. The truck was a reach-type forklift. He was trailing a loaded pallet of meat into the warehouse area. He drove his forklift directly into an elevated and loaded pallet, which was located on a second forklift, as the operator of the second forklift was preparing to place that pallet onto a storage rack. The loaded pallet had been elevated to a height that was approximately that of the employee's torso. The employee was transported to a local hospital and then sent
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Event type
- 6
- Occupation code
- 7020
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