OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848077
UNSECURED,WORK RULES,LOAD SHIFT,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SLIPPERY SURFACE
Event description
Employee killed in fall from elevated forks of lift truck
Investigation abstract
On September 9, 1987, Employee #1 was assigned to replace a ballast in a ceiling els that had a slick surface, providing little resistance against the surface of the forks. lamp located approximately 25 feet above the ground. Suitable ladders on scaffo lds were not available to reach that height. He obtained a forklift, set a load on the forks, and asked a coworker to elevate him up to the ceiling lamp, thereb y using the load as a work platform. He had been elevated for about 10 minutes w hen the load he was standing on began to shift and slide off the forks. Employee #1 fell to the concrete floor and was killed. Investigation revealed that the l oad shift was due to normal hydraulic pressure loss and drifting of the lifting device. A contributing factor was that the load itself consisted of building pan
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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