OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221567175

GOELZER INDUSTRIES INC

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX— 2023-05-25T00:00:00

Event: Back, Cleaning, Crushed, Driver, Face, Falling Object, Forklift, Industrial Truck, Leg, Machine operator, Material Handling, Pallet, Palletized Cargo, Paper, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Printer, Printing, Printing Press, Struck By, Walking Surface, Work Surface
NAICS: 322230
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346732977
Employer profile: GOELZER INDUSTRIES INC
Summary number: 221567175
Report ID: 0626300

Event description

Employee is killed when crushed by 900 pound pallet of paper

Investigation abstract

At 9:00 a.m. on May 25, 2023, an employee working as a printing machine operator for a paper office products manufacturer was cleaning ink from a paper handling machine. The employee was working near a stack of pallets holding reams of paper. A coworker was using a forklift to lift a pallet of paper in the immediate vicinity of the employee when an adjacent pallet snagged on the lifted pallet. This caused the adjacent pallet to tip over and fall upon the employee's lower body. The pallet of paper weighed about 900 pounds. The employee died after sustaining injuries to her back, face and legs from being crushed between her work surface and the fallen pallet.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 46 F

Event type
1

Occupation code
734

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