Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221385792

PENSKE LOGISTICS, INC.

Event
Building, Crushed, Driving, Equipment Operator, Forklift, Fracture, Hip, Industrial Truck, Inexperience, Laborer, Material Handling, PIV, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Training, Untrained, Wall, Warehouse
NAICS
493110
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345499891
Employer profile
PENSKE LOGISTICS, INC.
Summary number
221385792
Report ID
0950624

Event description

Employee fractures hip driving forklift into warehouse wall

Investigation abstract

At 6:00 p.m. on July 20, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a warehouse was being trained on forklift operation. The employee returned to work following lunch prior to the trainer returning and began to operate the forklift. The employee turned the forklift in the wrong direction and struck a wall. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured hip.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 21 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    889

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