OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #979054
WOOD BROTHERS & HALSTEAD LUMBER CO
PHOENIX, AZ·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between forklifts
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:35 p.m. on June 28, 1988, Employee #1, a forklift supervisor ing slightly to the right when he collided with the V-120 forklift, crushing Emp loyee #1 between the two vehicles. He later died as a result of injuries sustain ed in the accident. for Ward Brothers & Halstead Lumber Co., was unloading 60 units of pallet mater ial 3 by 4s, (144 pieces per unit) from a 40 ft International flatbed truck. He was operating a model V-120 forklift, serial #60W00449. He unloaded a unit of 3 by 4s, taking them to the northwest corner of the stockyard. At the docking area , the employee got off the forklift, placed a piece of 2 by 4 blocking material on the left underside of the unit, and was walking toward the rear of the forkli ft to get another 2 by 4 to block the right underside. A coworker operating a mo del V-100 forklift, serial #60W369, had unloaded a unit and was backing and turn
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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