Warehouse Worker Dies After Falling 9 Feet From a Forklift Truck Platform

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On May 1, 1996, a 36-year-old furniture warehouse worker was killed after falling from a platform mounted on the forks of an order-picker forklift truck. The incident occurred when the victim and a co-worker were moving boxes of furniture onto a newly installed racking system. The workers had loaded the boxes onto the forklift platform and were raising the lift place the boxes on the new racks. The victim was standing on the forklift platform with the boxes and fell off when the lift shook as it was being raised. He fell eight feet eight inches to the floor, striking his head on a section of steel angle iron lying on the cement. NJ FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers should develop and implement a written training and certification program for operating forklift trucks. 2. High-reach forklift operators should be instructed to use fall protection at all times. 3. Employers and employees should conduct a job hazard analysis of all work activities. 4. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive safety program.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-areas Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Temporary Worker
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96NJ029
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026628
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-100029
• 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 96NJ029, 1996 Oct ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  42 - Wholesale Trade - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2e3a61babbe6d87544c115f370e69fcd028c0fc9b9892c801804b91d11377bae8398ee081b58e0adbc6d3e0d60cf63fdc5cae999f4eacc251081d6ae5a44739f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170050/cdc_170050_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 26.40 KB ]