OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #517045
SMISER FREIGHT SERVICE
HAYWARD, CA·
Event description
Employee injured when pinned in forklift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a forklift truck to push a road truck with faulty brak es. The lift truck, which had faulty steering, backed up to the road truck to ju mp start it. The road truck started up, then braked abruptly. Employee #1 lost c ontrol of the forklift, which went under the rear bed of the road truck. He was pinned between the seat and the wheel of the forklift. He suffered internal inju ries and required surgery to remove three feet of his intestine.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- ABDOMEN (1)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.