Hispanic Lumberyard Worker Dies When Struck By a Forklift – North Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Lutz, Virginia
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 58-year-old Hispanic lumberyard worker died on March 30, 2012, from crushing injuries received when a forklift driven by a coworker struck him. The lumberyard laborer was walking from his work area to the employee lunchroom. At the same time, and in the same area, a coworker was operating a forklift that was loaded with lumber. The forklift operator's field of vision was limited because he was transporting the lumber "load-forward" and the load partially obscured his view. He did not see the laborer but stopped when he felt the forklift roll over something. He exited the cab and found the laborer unresponsive, lying near the left side of the forklift. The laborer was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner identified head and thoracic injuries as the cause of death.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Engineering-controls Equipment-design Equipment-operators Field-of-vision Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operators OSHA Region 4 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Surveillance Training Traumatic-injuries Warning-systems Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Foreign Born Workers ; Temporary Worker
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201201
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; 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:
  15 pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045495
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-102736
• 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:
  2015
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2012/03/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6100a5a95784eee4c4569e81b17d904123dcdb887d4cf633c5d39dcbfeb03c000f0ac5e155ffded24cdd5a16467be0a66397c80cf3060542bfe9afd55df8b18c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167258/cdc_167258_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 588.76 KB ]