OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887943
TRAK AUTO
LANDOVER, MD·
Event description
Employee's toe injured when run over by forklift
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:00 midnight on March 16, 1989, Employee #1 reported to work and went to the forklift that he operates, although a coworker was using it at t he time. The employee tried to board the operator's platform and had placed his right foot on the platform when his left foot slipped off the side of the forkli ft and became pinned under the wheel. He injured his middle toe and his supervis or called for help. He was admitted to the hospital, where he underwent two oper ations on his toe. Employee #1 was wearing tennis shoes at the time of the accid ent.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators (859)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- 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.