OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221493349
HM GROUP USA/HM SUREROCK INC
LA VERNE, CA—
Event description
Employee is killed when crushed by falling forklift
Investigation abstract
At 4:04 p.m. on August 29, 2022, an employee was moving pallets of doors from a shipment. The employee was operating a forklift in reverse to pick-up the pallet. As the forklift moved into the path of travel, he was not looking and did not see the edge of the loading dock. The employee drove the forklift off of the loading dock, causing him to be ejected and crushed under the rollover protective structure of the forklift. The employee was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Event type
- 2
- Occupation code
- 856
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