OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #975771
DRAKE PRODUCE INC
TERRE HAUTE, IN·
Event description
Employee dies of head injury in fall from forklift
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:03 p.m. on June 9, 1989, Employee #1 was backing out of a co mpany-owned 1977 International panel truck, Loadstar 1800, serial #00532GCA26556 , on a Clark electric forklift #6, serial #E355-939-0415FA. Employee #1 had just finished leaving a skid of garbage in the panel truck. The panel truck rolled a way from the dock and, as Employee #1 backed out, he and the fork lift fell to t he ground. Employee #1's head fell against the edge of the dockplate, which was resting perpendicular to the ground against the dock, and split in half. Employe e #1 died instantly.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 67 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators (856)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.