OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745117
WORK RULES,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,INEXPERIENCE,ELBOW,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee's elbow crushed in forklift hoisting apparatus
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a temporary employee, had worked for 1 1/2 hours on the night shift from a bin, he was elevated to that bin, where he picked off the items and was lowered for travel to the next bin. (The bottom of the upper bin was about 16 ft above the floor.) If there were a number of items from a given bin, the pallet would be brought down, the items transferred, and the pallet put back in its bin . On this occasion, the pick was to be made from the second or third bin. Employ ee #1 had been sitting on the cargo with his back to the backrest. When he went to the stand he put his left elbow on or through the backrest as the forks were being raised, and it was quickly caught and crushed. When he yelled, the operato r stopped and unloaded the pallet. Employee #1 was taken to the hospital. on his first day at a wholesale bakery supply warehouse. He was assigned as a f ront end person for a forklift driver whose duties were to fill orders from pall et loads of flour, sugar, shortening, etc. These ingredients were stored in bins stacked three to four high. The front end person customarily rode on an unsecur ed pallet that was set on the forks. The upper half of the load backrest had ver tical bars 6 in. apart and was less than 2 in. from the hoist ram and chains and telescoping mast sections. The front end person hung onto the backrest while tr aveling both horizontally and vertically. If there were one or two items to pick
Victim
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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