OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221392632

MTC LOGISTICS

NEW CASTLE, DE· 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Event: Attachment, Back, Backing Up, Basket, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Bollard, Cage, Collision, Concrete Surface, Contusion, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Distracted, Distracted driving, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Forklift, Freezer, Hoist, Industrial Truck, Laborer, Personnel Cage, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Safety Cage, Speeding, Unsafe Position, Warehouse
NAICS: 493120
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345452056
Employer profile: MTC LOGISTICS
Summary number: 221392632
Report ID: 0317300

Event description

Employee injures back in fall with cage hoisted by forklift

Investigation abstract

At 10:30 a.m. on July 20, 2021, an employee was working as a laborer for a refridgerated warehouse. The employee was inside a safety cage which was raised on the forks of a forklift. A coworker operating the forlkift became distracted while backing up the vehicle at an accelerated rate. The safety cage crashed into a safety bollard that was protecting the B-South freezer door. This caused the cage to slide off the forks and plummet along with the employee approximately ten feet to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized to treat contusions to his back.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
869

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