OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809939
FIELDCREST CANNON, INC. PLANT #1
KANNAPOLIS, NC·
Event description
Employee injured as forklift falls through collapsed floor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was the operator of a forklift equipped with a personnel cage. While a coworker was being raised in the cage to replace a damaged sprinkler head, th e ramp flooring gave way and the forklift fell approximately 4 ft to the ground. Employee #1 sustained a fractured wrist when it was caught between the forklift 's overhead guard and the adjacent warehouse wall. The coworker sustained minor bruises during the fall.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 518
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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