Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170698815 - Employee's leg crushed by fork of forklift

Accident Summary Nr: 170698815 -- Report ID: 0950642 -- Event Date: 05/07/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
112161203	05/17/1993	3592	0	Tomco Auto Products Inc

Abstract: A forklift driver for Tomco Auto Products of Vernon, CA, was driving an electric standup forklift in the parking lot of a warehouse and got it stuck in a soft patch of asphalt. He called Employee #1, another forklift driver for Tomco, to help him. Employee #1 was driving a large gasoline powered forklift. When he got there the driver switched with him, since he was more experienced, and Employee #1 got on the electric. The forklift driver pushed the electric forklift with one of the gas machine's forks. The fork dislodged and came up, and the gas forklift lunged forward. The fork went into the driver's station of the standup electric forklift, crushing Employee #1's leg.

Keywords: IND TRK OPERATOR, WORK RULES, CRUSHED, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, MIRED, STRUCK BY, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	112161203			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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