Female Hispanic Farm Laborer Dies After Falling from the Elevated Forks of a Forklift - North Carolina: FACE 2003-04

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On October 5, 2002, a 37-year-old female Hispanic farm laborer (the victim) died after falling approximately 20 feet from the elevated forks of a forklift to a concrete barn floor. The victim was labeling bins of sweet potatoes that had been stacked five bins high in a curing barn. The victim stood on the forklift forks and was raised to the bottom of the top bin by her husband, the forklift operator. The operator heard his wife scream, then heard her hit the barn floor. He found his wife breathing but unresponsive. He carried the victim to a pickup truck and drove her to a nearby fire station. EMTs at the fire station transported the victim to the local hospital. She was later transported to a regional medical center where she died.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Accidental Falls
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-analysis
  • Work-practices
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Agricultural-workers
  • Agriculture
  • Agricultural-industry
  • Agricultural-machinery
  • Safety-practices
  • Farmers
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Agriculture ; Falls ; Hispanic - Agricultural ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200304
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• 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:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J.
• Volume:
  2003
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022504
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100558
• 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:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2002/08/26
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2003-04
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167352/cdc_167352_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 92.53 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c7b95dceec60ad8ba33d3e784b60b5c72bc9533c4d2c54bfc3ea4fe9fb82864e0fe59c15a6fc8976e59bfda10a389572d4336cd06c542e1d5ffd67fa6c55caf9