OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #704791
ALCO-GRAVURE INC
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
Employee's leg fractured when struck by loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker, both shippers, were assigned to load trailers with s truck training program, participation is voluntary. Other causal factors include the fact that the coworker had only informal training despite 4 1/2 years on th e job, lack of communication between employees, failure to sound a horn when ent ering a confined space, haste, and inattention. kids of printed catalogs. The approximately 92 1/2 ft wide by 45 ft long trailer was half loaded with approximately 10 skids. Employee #1 went into the trailer with a skid and was placing it into position on the right side when the coworker , operating a new Yale fork transporter, model #MPW-40-SAN-12-C-2748, SEC N-4466 08, entered the trailer on the right with another skid. The coworker could not s ee over the load, which measured approximately 60 in. high by 42 1/2 in. wide. H e backed into Employee #1, fracturing the employee's left leg in two places belo w the knee. The coworker was the only witness. Although the employer has a fork
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 859
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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