OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221686751

ONSITE REFRIGERATION SERVICES LLC

PARIS, AR— 2024-07-27T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Construction, Construction vehicle, Department Store, Driving, Forklift, Industrial Truck, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Laborer, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Overturn, PIV, Pinned, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Rolled, Safety Cage, Slope, Unstable Position, Unstable Soil, Work Surface
NAICS: 238220
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347647752
Employer profile: ONSITE REFRIGERATION SERVICES LLC
Summary number: 221686751
Report ID: 0627100
Project type: B
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee dies from multiple trauma when pinned by overturned

Investigation abstract

At 1:15 a.m. on July 27, 2024, an employee working as a construction laborer for died from traumatic compression and blunt force injury. a mechanical contractor was driving a Unicarrier Forklift (PIV) along the east side of a department store. The employee drove around a shelter at the northeast corner of the store. The employee was driving the PIV onto a slope when the front right tire left the edge of the compacted earth and sunk into the adjacent softer soil. The PIV tipped over and the cage came to a rest on top of the employee. The employee sustained a subtotal amputation of his left arm, a fractured humerus, multiple pelvic fractures, bilateral conjunctival and scleral hemorrhage and vascular congestion of the chest, neck, and face. The employee

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
869

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