Maintenance Worker Struck by Forklift Carriage—Tennessee

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On February 28, 2014, a 51-year-old maintenance worker was crushed by the forks of a forklift he was repairing. At the time of the incident, the maintenance worker was working below the elevated forks, replacing a hydraulic seal on the forklift carriage lift mechanism while the carriage and forks were supported by resting the fork tips on the edge of a shipping container. The forklift operator was standing next to the forklift. As the maintenance worker tightened a hydraulic fitting, the fork tips slipped off the container edge. The carriage and forks fell, striking his head and pinning him underneath. The forklift operator radioed to call 911. Emergency medical services dispatched to the incident, and the maintenance worker was transferred to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Maintenance Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Forklifts Hydraulic Equipment Injuries Injury-prevention Maintenance Workers OSHA Region 4 Surveillance Training Traumatic Injuries Work Practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201401
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  11 pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048459
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2016-104203
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2014/02/28
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6017c5703c59786b1c0d9de16848637f4aa9e2b0d8ed9958d0ff1f8d817dfcb1821989dfc44872672f58834cc27ac3ce4bfbf57f14270a400ff60fa4b1b7fd0e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167253/cdc_167253_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 340.58 KB ]