OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #764688
CHEST,FRACTURE,PINNED,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed when forklift overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had just loaded a box of tools into a company van in an outside park ing lot by a loading dock. A forklift overturned, pinning him underneath it. He died of multiple fractures to the chest area.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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