Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Alrow Steel Corporation, 8600 S. 89th West Ave., TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74131
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
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Final narrative
The employee was helping to load a truck. He was walking and looking at a scanner at the same time a forklift truck was backing up. The back-up alarm and light were working. Because he was looking at the scanner, he did not see the forklift truck backing up. The right rear tire of the forklift truck ran over his left foot. The employee was wearing steel toe shoes.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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