OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221483886

AMAZON.COM SERVICES, LLC

CARLISLE, PA— 2022-08-01T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Collision, Concrete Floor, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Floor, Order-picker, Overturn, Picking an order, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Tips Over, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle
NAICS: 493110
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346116593
Employer profile: AMAZON.COM SERVICES, LLC
Summary number: 221483886
Report ID: 0316700

Event description

Employee is killed in cherry picker collision

Investigation abstract

At 12:10 a.m. on August 1, 2022, an employee was working from the elevated platform of a Crown Order Picker, 26-feet above the floor. The employee was picking orders from the top shelf of a rack system when a coworker, operating a picker traveling at full speed in the same aisle, crashed into the employee's picker. The impact caused the employee's order picker to tip over and crash to the floor. The employee died due to multiple traumatic injuries.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 22 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
889

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