OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221416779

FRITO-LAY INC

KAUKAUNA, WI· 2021-12-07T00:00:00

Event: Back, Building, Contusion, Crushed, Driving, Engineering Controls, Equipment Operator, Falling Object, Food processing, Forklift, Fracture, Head, Industrial Truck, Lack of Engineering Controls, Loading, Lung, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, Neck, Paralysis, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Puncture, Stand-Up Forklift, Stand-Up Operator, Struck Against, Warehouse, Work Surface
NAICS: 493110
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345671630
Employer profile: FRITO-LAY INC
Summary number: 221416779
Report ID: 0521100

Event description

Employee is paralyzed when crushed between trailer and dock

Investigation abstract

At 1:15 a.m. on December 7, 2021, an employee was operating a Crown Model RC spine, trachea and back resulting in paralysis and requiring hospitalization. 5535-35 Stand-Up Rider Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) from an elevated dock loading products onto an empty trailer. The product was going to be temporarily stored on the trailer because it was considered overflow and there was no room inside the facility for storage. As the employee was backing out of the trailer and heading back toward the dock, the trailer shifted away from the dock approximately six feet. The PIT fell off the back of the trailer and became wedged in a suspended position between the dock and the trailer. The employee was pinned against the dock plate and incurred severe injuries to his head,

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M

Event type
6

Occupation code
889

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