OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #789412
MIDWAY PLANT FARM INC
HILLSBORO, OR·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK AGAINST (6)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Nursery workers (484)
- Human factor
- PERCEPTION MALFUNC,TASK-ENVIR. (8)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- 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.