OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221433659
GILL TRANSPORT, LLC.
OXNARD, CA·
Event description
Employee is killed when run over by forklift
Investigation abstract
At 2:30 p.m. on September 3, 2021, an employee, a truck driver, had just come the ground and ran over him. The coworker saw papers flying so he stopped, put the forklift in reverse, got off and saw the employee lying on the ground. The employee suffered multiple fractures and died of blunt force injuries back to the yard with a full load of onions. The employee was standing behind the building with his back facing the truck looking down at the tags he needed to put on the bins being unloaded while a coworker, a forklift operator, was finishing unloading his truck. The coworker picked up two stacks of bins off the truck, put the forklift in reverse, and backed up. There was a stack of two bins on his left forks and three bins on his right fork so the coworker turned the forklift around so he could drive forward to put the bins down. As the coworker drove forward, he was unable to see the employee and he hit him, knocked him to
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 70 M
- Event type
- 6
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