OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888065
ABDOMEN,PINNED,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,CONTUSION,DOOR MACHINE,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee injured when pinned between machine and fork truck
Investigation abstract
On July 20, 1989, a manager filling in for an absent hourly employee was unloadi the machine. He sustained abdominal bruises and was hospitalized. ng trucks and hauling bales from a baler using a Hyster fork truck, model S40XL, serial #187V03749G. Employee #1 was banding bales of cardboard between the mach ine and the door. He was told by the manager to check out the tie machine becaus e it was not working properly. The employee opened the door of the tie machine t o the half open position and began to rethread the wire, while also making other corrections. The manager was pushing a damaged bale toward the aisleway between the tie machine and building wall. Upon passing the open door of the tie machin e, the back corner of the fork truck struck the door and pinned the employee to
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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