Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121678.015 - Employee fractures foot when PIV pulled from mud overturns

Accident Summary Nr: 121678.015 -- Report ID: 0418600 -- Event Date: 11/05/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1444879.015	11/14/2019		424410	W. L. Petrey Wholesale Company, Inc.

Abstract: At 11:00 p.m. on November 5, 2019, an employee working an a Heavy Equipment Operator for a grocery wholesaler was sitting on a Nissan electric forklift that was stuck in the mud. The employee hooked a chain from the forklift to a tractor trailer so the tractor could pull the PIV out of the mud. When the tractor trailer pulled forward, the PIV overturned pinning the employee's foot beneath the PIV. The employee fractured his foot and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Crushed, Driver, Equipment Operator, Foot, Forklift, Fracture, Grocery Store, Industrial Truck, Mud Pit, PIV, Pinned, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Pulling, Roll-Over, Stuck, Tractor Trailer, Tractor--Truck, Unstable Position

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1444879.015	62	M	Hospitalized injury		Equipment Operator: Heavy

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