OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #789412
HEAD,IND TRK OPERATOR,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,CONCUSSION,OVERTURN
Event description
Nursery worker injured when forklift overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a 15-year-old nursery worker, drove a Clark 204 forklift out to som e bins behind a shed, lifted a pallet of garbage, drove it over to a dumpster, a nd emptied it. He then went back to the bins for another pallet and emptied it i nto the dumpster. As he backed up the forklift, he cranked the wheels, stepped d own on the gas pedal, and pulled forward in a turn. When he tried to straighten out the forklift, it overturned on its right side. The mast hit the employee's h ead and his leg was pinned under the body of the forklift. He suffered a concuss ion and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 15 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 484
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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