OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221436710
HENRY AVOCADO CORPORATION
MILPITAS, CA·
Event description
Pallet jack operator fractures hip in fall onto cooler floor
Investigation abstract
At 10:30 a.m. on February 8, 2022, an employee was working for a firm that grew pallet jack, and he was a certified operator. The local fire department reported the incident to DOSH by phone on February 8, 2022. The employer reported the incident on February 9, 2022. By the time of the investigation, the scene of the incident had been changed. and distributed avocados throughout the area. He drove light trucks. The firm was shipping pallets of avocados for the upcoming Super Bowl. The employee was operating a Nissan UniCarrier rider pallet jack carrying an order of avocados. He was inside a cooler. The pallet jack stopped automatically after it struck an angle iron located along the edges of the floor of the cooler. The employee got off the pallet jack and started walking away, when he fell over the guide rail, onto the epoxy floor. His right leg struck an angle iron when he fell. He suffered a hip fracture. He was hospitalized. He reported no problems with the
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 63 M
- Event type
- 14
- Occupation code
- 805
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