OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #979633
HEAD,SAFETY LATCH,IND TRK OPERATOR,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,PELVIS,FALL,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
Employee injured in fall from forklift-elevated platform
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:00 a.m., Employee #1, a forklift operator who had been employ ed by McLane Sunwest Grocery Distribution for four years, and two coworkers were taking inventory in a warehouse. Employee #1 and one coworker were elevated 12 ft in a platform attached to a forklift truck. Employee #1 fell through the safe ty chain across the top of the platform to the concrete floor, sustaining seriou s injuries to her head and pelvis. The safety chain was a lightweight chain equi pped with an S hook--not a safety hook.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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