Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 141677.015 - Employee is paralyzed when crushed between trailer and dock

Accident Summary Nr: 141677.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 12/07/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1567163.015	12/07/2021		493110	Frito-Lay Inc

Abstract: At 1:15 a.m. on December 7, 2021, an employee was operating a Crown Model RC 5535-35 Stand-Up Rider Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) from an elevated dock loading products onto an empty trailer. The product was going to be temporarily stored on the trailer because it was considered overflow and there was no room inside the facility for storage. As the employee was backing out of the trailer and heading back toward the dock, the trailer shifted away from the dock approximately six feet. The PIT fell off the back of the trailer and became wedged in a suspended position between the dock and the trailer. The employee was pinned against the dock plate and incurred severe injuries to his head, spine, trachea and back resulting in paralysis and requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Back, Building, Contusion, Crushed, Driving, Engineering Controls, Equipment Operator, Falling Object, Food processing, Forklift, Fracture, Head, Industrial Truck, Lack of Engineering Controls, Loading, Lung, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, Neck, Paralysis, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Puncture, Stand-Up Forklift, Stand-Up Operator, Struck Against, Warehouse, Work Surface

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1567163.015	40	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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