OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891770
ROPE,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,CONSTRUCTION,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,ENTANGLED
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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