OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970871
INTERMOUNTAIN CARPET SERVICE
PARK CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee injured in fall with wooden box from forklift
Investigation abstract
On December 30, 1988, while removing tools from a two-sided wooden box on a fork lift, Employee #1 stepped on the outside corner causing the unattached two-sided box to tip. The box and Employee #1 fell about 30 to 35 feet. Employee #1 broke his back, dislocated his left shoulder, and sustained cuts and abrasions to the right side of his head.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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