OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221638950

TRANSPORTE PARA TODO INC

NARANJITO, PR· 2024-02-06T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Driver, Driving, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Forklift, Fracture, Head, Hill, Industrial Truck, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, PIV, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Roll-Over, Sales, Sales Representative, Skull, Slip, Slippery Surface, Slope, Sloping, Unloading, Walking Surface, Weather, Work Surface, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 444130
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #347265795
Employer profile: TRANSPORTE PARA TODO INC
Summary number: 221638950
Report ID: 0257260

Event description

Employee is killed in roll over while operating PIV on slipp

Investigation abstract

At 9:45 a.m. on February 6, 2024, an employee working as a sales worker for a hardware store was operating a forklift downhill. The employee was preparing to unload materials for a customer from a truck into the establishment. When he started driving the forklift on the incline, the PIV started to slip and began tumbling 5 to 6 times down the hill. A portion of the forklift landed on top of the employee. The employee died immediately from blunt head trauma including a fractured of skull.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
268

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