Plumbing Supply Warehouse Worker Dies in a Fall From a Raised Order Picker - Massachusetts

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On May 29, 2008 a 53-year-old male warehouse worker (victim) for a plumbing supply company was fatally injured when he fell from a raised order picker he was operating. The victim was accessing a toilet located on a top section of shelving when he fell approximately 16 feet from the raised order picker onto the concrete floor below. A co-worker discovered the victim and ran to the office area where another co-worker called for emergency medical services (EMS). EMS and the local police department arrived within minutes. The victim was then transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Massachusetts FACE Program concluded that to prevent similar occurrences in the future, employers should: 1.) Ensure warehouse management systems require heavy items to be stored on lower shelves that are clearly labeled
  
  2.) Ensure that fall protection equipment is worn by employees exposed to fall hazards
  
  3.) Adopt and enforce a mandatory tie-off / no unhook policy for order picker operators
  
  4.) Provide employees comprehensive training on powered industrial trucks
  
  5.) Ensure that employees operating order pickers have a state required hoisting license
  
  and 6.) Develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive written safety and health program that includes topics such as powered industrial trucks and fall protection.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Industrial-education Industrial-environment Industrial-hazards Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 1 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Warning-signs Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE08MA026
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037970
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-102717
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 08MA026, 2010 Mar ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  42 - Wholesale Trade - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7e9f3725606bc5971d97e03d02b65371942b6f8b8f71e257c322bbbbef1cfe61a5239bfba9f9b4ea77e806b5f19c11f609ca6d028eaba49cc77400b7995974c5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165262/cdc_165262_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 244.83 KB ]