OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #692392
OBSTRUCTED VIEW,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by fork truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in the middle of a roadway rolling up the power cord to a vibrat or while a fork truck driver was carrying a slurp bucket back from the dump area . The fork truck driver had to raise the load to clear the bed of a truck that w as parked near the north end of oil tank room #3. After clearing the truck bed, the fork truck driver proceeded on with the forks (load) lowered. Approximately 19 feet past the south end of oil tank room #3, the fork truck driver felt a bum p as if he had run over a rock. He looked back and saw Employee #1 lying dead in the roadway.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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