OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221374994
QUALITY ALUMINUM ACQUISITIONS
HASTINGS, MI·
Event description
Employee is impaled by powered industrial truck fork while p
Investigation abstract
At 8:20 a.m. on July 16, 2021, Employee #1 was picking up a skid from a workstation when a stand-up powered industrial truck operator started to back up. At the same time, a sit-down powered industrial truck operator was attempting to go around the stand-up truck. The interaction caused the employee to be impaled on the upper back of the thigh by a powered industrial truck fork. The employee was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Event type
- 1
- Occupation code
- 883
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