OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221384621

COSTCO DEPOT 960

MIRA LOMA, CA· 2021-05-04T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Collision, Equipment Operator, Fracture, Industrial Truck, Leg, Material Handling, Moving, Moving Object, Obstructed View, PIV, Pallet, Pallet Jack, Palletized Cargo, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Struck Against, Struck By, Unsafe Position, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle, Work Surface, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 424410
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345342141
Employer profile: COSTCO DEPOT 960
Summary number: 221384621
Report ID: 0950633

Event description

Employee driving PIV fractures leg when collides with parke

Investigation abstract

At 12:50 p.m. on May 4, 2021, an employee working as a shipping and receiving clerk for a warehouse distribution center was driving an Electric Pallet Jack (EPJ) powered industrial vehicle (PIV) to move boxes on a pallet. The employee was a full-time, permanent employee of the employer. The employee was driving the PIV near the junction of two drive ways. While making a right turn, she crashed into a parked forklift. The employee was hospitalized for one week to treat a fractured left leg.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 38 F

Event type
1

Occupation code
364

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