Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221433659

GILL TRANSPORT, LLC.

Event
Blind Spot, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Containerized Cargo, Crushed, Forklift, Material Handling, Run Over, Struck By, Tractor Trailer, Unloading
NAICS
484121
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345761241
Employer profile
GILL TRANSPORT, LLC.
Summary number
221433659
Report ID
0950643

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

  1. #1 Fatality Age 70 M

    Event type
    6

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