OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891770
D. F. SMITH MASONRY, INC.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from moving forklift
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:00 a.m. on May 17, 1989, Employee #1 was standing on the stre o the ground. He sustained facial cuts and lacerations, and was hospitalized. Th e forklift had safety warning symbols posted in clear view of the operator that stated that riders were not allowed. et in front of a single family home that was under construction. He had a 60 ft coil of rope slung over his right shoulder. A foreman of P.F. Smith Masonry, Inc ., Glen Burnie, MD, was operating a Koehring Sky Trak rough terrain forklift, mo del 5522, at the construction site and stopped to talk to Employee #1. As he sta rted to move the forklift again, he permitted Employee #1 to ride on the outside of it by standing on the cab entrance step and holding onto the top of the cab. The end of the coil of rope that the employee had over his shoulder became tang led in the rear wheel of the forklift, pulling him off and causing him to fall t
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FACE (9)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Excavating and loading machine operators (853)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- WEATHER, EARTHQUAKE, ETC. (17)
- 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.