A 61-year-old Salesman Dies After Falling 10 Feet From an Operator-up High Lift Truck

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On December 29, 2000, a 61-year-old male salesman was fatally injured in a 10-foot fall from an operator-up high lift truck (order picker) in a warehouse. The victim and a co-worker were working together as one of seven teams performing year-end product inventory. The victim, standing on a platform raised by an order picker, was writing down product type and quantity while the co-worker, standing in the operator's area of the order picker, was counting product. The victim fell with the platform's guardrail system when it became detached from the platform. A call was placed and emergency assistance arrived within minutes and transported the victim to a hospital were he was pronounced dead. The Massachusetts FACE Program concluded that to prevent similar occurrences in the future, employers should: 1. Perform a hazard analysis before introducing new equipment into the workplace. 2. Provide health and safety training to employees before allowing them to perform unfamiliar warehouse tasks. 3. Develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive health and safety program that includes, but is not limited to, health and safety requirements for year-end inventory.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Health Promotion Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Health-programs Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 1 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Warehousing Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE00MA070
• 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:
  1-11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028509
• 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 00MA070, 2002 Jun ; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  53 - Real Estate and Rental and Leasing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0c1f78b2e4f1c5ed222c38731ffa670e248b9cf8d061d2b7cd6350c4743c1b07770d84c753c5c8cd09cf2259bd0a9232a3afed340b3e526f43c0e7998467407e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166587/cdc_166587_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 270.97 KB ]