OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #976035
TORSO,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FORKLIFT TRUCK
Investigation abstract
At 2:05 a.m. on March 7, 1989, Employee #1 was cleaning up the area between the ed for shock and released the same day. Sufficient safe clearance was not provid ed where trucks as wide as 74 inches were used. Edge Guide hydraulic unit and the Reliance unit located adjacent and west of the 76 inch wide east aisle, while Employee #2 was traveling south on the east aisl e, operating the Silent Hoist Ram propane forklift truck number 2, Serial number 19344, with a capacity of 55,000 pounds, when the truck struck Employee #1 with out Employee #2's knowledge, dragging Employee #1 approximately 37.5 feet. Emplo yee #2 then felt a bump, got off the truck and found Employee #1 under the truck by the rear right wheel. Employee #1 was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. on March 7, 1989, from crushing injuries. Employee #2 was taken to the hospital and treat
Victims (2)
-
#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 29
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.