Fall from Forklift Pallet

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• Personal Author:
  Hetzler, William E. ; Hirsh, Gary L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE) ; Nebraska. Department of Labor
• Description:
  A 69-year-old part-time truck driver fell approximately 1 1/2 feet from a pallet on a forklift. He had just loaded a 30-gallon drum of chemicals from a flatbed truck to the pallet. The forklift driver then backed away from the truck and lowered the pallet at the same time. When the pallet was approximately 1-1/2 feet from the concrete floor, the victim fell and struck his head on the floor. He died twenty days later in a hospital as a result of injuries sustained. The Nebraska Department of Labor investigator concluded that to prevent future similar occurrences: 1. Employers and employees must ensure unauthorized personnel do not ride on forklifts. 2. Employers should consider putting everything on a pallet which requires a forklift for handling. 3. Employers should consider implementing a spot inspection program to ensure all employees are complying with safety requirements and develop and enforce consequences for noncompliance. 4. Develop, implement and enforce a comprehensive safety program that includes, but is not limited to, training in all hazard recognition to include safe operation of forklifts.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 7 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96NE009
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Nebraska ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027854
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-102026
• 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 96NE009, 1999 Jul ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Nebraska Department of Labor
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f0cf2f757beef342c0181e43c8079f2e5974e9a967e6b67f0a2f37399e6d417549a10751f7686e5b55bc10498bc70a45701357ee7ad290d6fbf0e9216770ef07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167015/cdc_167015_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 37.78 KB ]