Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221408180

CHEP SERVICES, LLC

Event
Backing Up, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Crushed, Driver, Forklift, Knee, Pallet, Pinned, Struck By
NAICS
321920
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345617971
Employer profile
CHEP SERVICES, LLC
Summary number
221408180
Report ID
0418400

Event description

Employee injures knee when struck by forklift

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 p.m. on November 1, 2021, an employee was standing next to his forklift at the bottom of a ramp, which led to the inside of the warehouse, waiting for maintenance to repair a loose fuel line. Another forklift came down the ramp in reverse loaded with pallets. It was dark and there was a truck that was partially parked in front of the ramp. The forklift operator swerved to avoid the truck and backed into the employee and pinned him between the two forklifts. The employee suffered a crushed knee which required hospitalization and surgery.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 38 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    856

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