OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14567267
FOLGHUM INDUSTRIES
SPRINGFIELD, SC—
Event description
CRUSHED BY FALLING FORKLIFT LOAD
Investigation abstract
ON NOVEMBER 15, 1984, AT APPROXIMATELY 2:15 PM, TWO EMPLOYEES WERE ATTEMPTING TO KED UNCONCIOUS WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE LOAD FROM FALLING. HE ALSO SUFFERED A FRACTURED THUMB. UNLOAD A 1,800 POUND CUTLER-HAMMER MOTOR CONTROL CENTER FROM AN ENCLOSED TRACTO R TRAILER. THEY WERE USING A FOGHUM FORK LIFT, MODEL #213T16000. THE CONTROL CEN TER WAS 717 INCHES HIGH BY 15 INCHES WIDE BY 8 FEET, 4 INCHES LONG. IT WAS FASTE NED TO A PALLET 40 INCHES WIDE. THEY COULD NOT GET BOTH FORKS OF THE FORKLIFT UN DER THE LOAD. THEY THEREFORE INSERTED ONE FORK LENGTHWISE UNDER THE MOTOR CONTRO L CENTER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ON ONE SIDE OF THE LOAD AND EMPLOYEE #2 ON THE OTHER A S IT WAS LOWERED TO THE GROUND. THE IMPROPERLY BALANCED LOAD FELL ONTO EMPLOYEE #1, CAUSING MULTIPLE INJURIES. HE DIED ON DECEMBER 1, 1984. EMPLOYEE #2 WAS KNOC
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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