OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #892299
SHOULDER,WAREHOUSE,SLIP,RIB,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Warehouse Clerk Fell Between Storage Boxes
Investigation abstract
An inventory clerk and forklift driver worked for a small moving and storage com gotten information on some boxes that came in during an earlier day off, so he s et about locating them. Company rules require a space to be left along outside w alls; and, in the overseas section, a small space is maintained between the two rows to accommodate differences in box sizes. The clerk's search led to a box in the row nearest the wall. He climbed on top of that box to check labels. There was a 2-foot clearance between this box and the next one in the row. His foot sl ipped, and he fell between the boxes. He worked his way out along the wall and s ought medical assistance. He received outpatient care that day for cracked ribs and a torn left shoulder muscle. pany. He had been with the company for 35 years and had worked mostly in the war ehouse alone or with another as a forklift driver. The company had been in the w arehouse for 3 years. Most of the warehouse space was taken by standard 5-foot b y 7-foot by 7-foot storage boxes. According to a master plan, a small two-row se ction was reserved for overseas boxes, which varied in size and which were kept on a list by the inventory clerk. In his absence, information on new arrivals wo uld be passed to him later to keep his list current. Consequently, the clerk usu ally knew exactly where each box was. One Monday, he discovered that he had not
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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