OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #762716
MEMPHIS COMPRESS COMPANY
MEMPHIS, TN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY WOODEN POST
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was struck and killed by a wooden post, which was knocked from its p osition by the impact of a forklift.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. (777)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- FLYING OBJECT ACTION (5)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.