OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221592355

R&L CARRIERS SHARED SERVICES LLC

TONAWANDA, NY— 2023-08-22T00:00:00

Event: Backing Up, Chest, Equipment Operator, Face, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Forklift, Fracture, Head, Laceration, Loading Dock, Lung, Neck, Rib, Vertebra
NAICS: 484122
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346925167
Employer profile: R&L CARRIERS SHARED SERVICES LLC
Summary number: 221592355
Report ID: 0213600

Event description

Employee is killed when forklift backs off loading dock

Investigation abstract

At 3:30 a.m. on August 22, 2023, an employee was operating a forklift, scanning a piece of freight. The employee backed the forklift off the loading dock, falling with the forklift to ground level. The employee was killed. The employee sustained multiple head/facial injuries, neck hemorrhaging, multiple rib fractures, a laceration to the right lung, hemorrhaging in the chest cavity, and a L4 vertebrae fracture.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 63 M

Event type
5

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