OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #849364
SEIGLES HOME & BUILDING CENTER
BARRINGTON, IL·
Event description
Lift truck driver killed by falling stacks of lumber
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a lift truck driver, had stacked eight piles of lumber to a height of approximately 16 ft. Three of the stacks, each containing 80 pieces of 14 ft long 2 by 10s, and weighing approximately 7,000 lb, fell from his truck and kill ed him A violation of standard 1910.176(b) was cited: the lumber was not limited in height and was not secured against storage sliding and collapse.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- ANIMAL/INS/REPT/ETC. (3)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.