OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691576
INDUSTRIAL PARTS DEPOT
SLC, UT·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by overturning forklift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a forklift to transfer scrap Caterpillar tread rollers fro m a shop's northwest work bay to a scrap container on the east side of the shop building. On his second trip, the forklift started to tip, ejecting the employee . The lift continued to tip and the overhead protection struck Employee #1 on th e back of the head and neck as it hit the ground. He was killed instantly. The t ire marks showed that the forklift had been accelerating for at least 60 feet in a decreasing radius.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 843
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.