OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822015
COMMERCE DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
LINTHICUM, MD·
Event description
Employee's toes injured when run over by reach truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a supervisor, was standing alongside a reach truck in the main aisl e of a wholesale warehouse, talking to the operator. A worker was also alongside the truck between Employee #1 and the operator. Believing both parties to be en tirely clear, the operator started to move ahead and immediately rolled the righ t rear wheel onto Employee #1's right toes. The operator quickly backed off once he realized that the reach truck was on the employee's toes. Employee #1 sat do wn and took off his shoe and sock and noted that the small toe had been lacerate d on top and the toenails were missing from the next two. He was transported to a hospital by paramedics.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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