OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #784934
PEMBROKE RE-CYCLING CENTER
PEMBROKE, KY·
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BY LIFT TRUCK AND KILLED
Investigation abstract
A high lift rider truck was stuck after it ran over some cardboard. An attempt w as made to free the rider truck by pulling it with a chain attached to another t ruck. The other truck either backed over the high lift or Employee #1 turned it over and was pinned under it. The head of Employee #1 was crushed by the overhea d canopy, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators (856)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.