OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221404874

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EQUIPMENT, INC.

MIDDLEBURY, VT· 2021-08-05T00:00:00

Event: Back, Chest, Concussion, Contusion, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Engineering Controls, Equipment Operator, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Forklift, Fracture, Head, Industrial Truck, Lack of Engineering Controls, Loading, Loading Dock, Lost consciousness, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, PIV, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Rib, Seat Belt, Spine, Thrown, Tire, Tractor Trailer, Trailer, Trailer Truck
NAICS: 423820
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345517668
Employer profile: CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EQUIPMENT, INC.
Summary number: 221404874
Report ID: 0155010

Event description

Employee sustains concussion and fractures in fall from PIV

Investigation abstract

At 5:15 p.m. on August 5, 2021, an employee working for a industrial machinery fractures of three spinous transverse process and a concussion. and equipment wholesaler was loading a telehandler powered industrial vehicle (PIV) from a loading dock onto a flat bed tractor trailer. The employee was reversing the PIV onto the trailer when the rear passenger side tire came off the trailer. This in turn caused the PIV to roll off the drivers side of the trailer and onto the ground. The employee was not wearing the manufacturer installed seat belt and the door to the PIV was open. The employee was thrown from the vehicle and landed on the ground several feet from the trailer. The employee lost consciousness and was hospitalized to treat five fractured ribs,

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 54 M

Event type
1

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