Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 168675.015 - Employee dies from multiple trauma when pinned by overturned

Accident Summary Nr: 168675.015 -- Report ID: 0627100 -- Event Date: 07/27/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1764775.015	07/27/2024		238220	Onsite Refrigeration Services Llc

Abstract: At 1:15 a.m. on July 27, 2024, an employee working as a construction laborer for a mechanical contractor was driving a Unicarrier Forklift (PIV) along the east side of a department store. The employee drove around a shelter at the northeast corner of the store. The employee was driving the PIV onto a slope when the front right tire left the edge of the compacted earth and sunk into the adjacent softer soil. The PIV tipped over and the cage came to a rest on top of the employee. The employee sustained a subtotal amputation of his left arm, a fractured humerus, multiple pelvic fractures, bilateral conjunctival and scleral hemorrhage and vascular congestion of the chest, neck, and face. The employee died from traumatic compression and blunt force injury.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Construction, Construction vehicle, Department Store, Driving, Forklift, Industrial Truck, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Laborer, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Overturn, PIV, Pinned, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Rolled, Safety Cage, Slope, Unstable Position, Unstable Soil, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1764775.015	33	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) Fatality Cause:

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