OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809392
FRACTURE,SKULL,ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR,FALL,STRUCK BY,OVERTURN
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN MAN LIFT OVERTURNS
Investigation abstract
An employee of Pee Wee's Electric Service Incorporated was working 11 ft above a concrete floor on a man lift. He was installing electrical conductor on an over head conveyor system, when the man lift was struck by a forklift. The man lift w as pushed into the conveyor rail, which caused the mobile man lift to topple ove r. The employee suffered a fractured skull and was killed in the ensuing fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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