OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888578
C & G LAMOTTE MASONRY, INC.
HAMPSTEAD, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when forklift overturns
Investigation abstract
On October 3, 1988, Employee #1 was using a Pettibone Corp. Extendo lift, model the employee then turned the lift, causing it to overturn. He jumped or was expe lled to the ground by the momentum of the overturning lift, sustaining fractures , lacerations, and a cracked neck vertebra. He was hospitalized for nine days. T he lift had ROPS, a covered canopy, and a seat belt, although it was not being u sed at the time of the accident. Employee #1 had 20 years of experience operatin g this type of equipment. He had received training, but the employer had no orga nized program in place to ensure compliance with this training. B-66 5-113, to place and remove materials on scaffolding for use by coworkers wh o were erecting a facing wall on the rear of a two-story home that was under con struction. The employee was going to retrieve a partially full mud pan of cement from the scaffold and use it to erect bricks on the front of the house. As he a pproached the scaffolding with the boom extended 12 ft, the lift stalled and the n began rolling backward away from the house. The employee had not set the lift' s parking brakes because he had not planned to stop. He tried to restart the eng ine as the lift, with the boom still extended, continued downslope. Apparently,
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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