Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221409006

IPPOLITO INTERNATIONAL, LP

Event
Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovasc Disease, Cardiovasc System, Collapse, Forklift, Heart, Heart Attack, Loading, Operator, Tractor, Trailer
NAICS
424480
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345624340
Employer profile
IPPOLITO INTERNATIONAL, LP
Summary number
221409006
Report ID
0950612

Event description

Employee dies while operating forklift

Investigation abstract

At 5:40 p.m. on November 4, 2021, an employee was operating a forklift and loading tractors onto trailers for transport. After not seeing the employee for a period of time, a coworker went looking for him and found him in front of a trailer, face down, convulsing and foaming from the mouth. The employee was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The coroner set the cause of death as an enlarged heart.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 50 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    516

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