Accident Report Detail
Accident: 140871.015 - Employee Suffers Broken Femur When Struck By Forklift
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
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1562194.015 | 11/03/2021 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Llc. |
At 6:50 a.m. on November 2, 2021, an employee was working as a freight, stock, a nd material handler for a firm that manufactured upholstered furniture. He was o perating a Crown electrically powered PE400-60 pallet jack, with serial number 6 A240729. It had an internally assigned company number VJ707. He was bringing par ts to assembly line 30 in the facility's plant two, case goods assembly. He was being followed by a coworker operating a Hyster electrically powered E60XN-33 fo rklift, with serial number A268N08696K. They were in an aisle 16.5 feet (5.0 met ers) wide. The employee operating the pallet jack made an abrupt U-turn. He was struck by the tines of the forklift operated by the coworker. The employee suffe red a broken femur. He was hospitalized.
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation |
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1 | 1562194.015 | 35 | M | Hospitalized injury | Freight, stock and material handlers, n.e.c. |