OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221657596

LOAD N' GO BUILDING MATERIALS INC.

LOS ANGELES, CA· 2024-04-15T00:00:00

Event: Caught Between, Construction, Construction vehicle, Crushed, Delivery Work, Driver, Falling Object, Forklift, Industrial Truck, Lack of Engineering Controls, Material Handling, PIV, Powered Industrial Vehicle, ROPS, Rebar, Residential Construction, Roll-Over, Sales, Sales Representative, Seat Belt, Unstable Load
NAICS: 444190
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347414575
Employer profile: LOAD N' GO BUILDING MATERIALS INC.
Summary number: 221657596
Report ID: 0950641
Project type: E
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed when crushed by PIV which rolled over

Investigation abstract

At 1:36 p.m. on April 15, 2024, an employee working as a sales driver for a building materials supplier was delivering rebar bundles to a residential construction site. The employee was operating a Moffett M5500 forklift powered industrial vehicle (PIV) when the PIV tipped over. The employee was not wearing the seatbelt and landed outside the rollover protective structure (ROPS). The employee was crushed by the PIV and died as a result.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 43 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
806

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