Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170718746 - Employee's hip fractured when struck by falling lumber

Accident Summary Nr: 170718746 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 10/21/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119722148	10/21/1992	4212	0	Joe Costa Trucking

Abstract: Employee #1 is a truck driver for a trucking company that hauls lumber for the Pacific Lumber Company in Scotia, CA. He was delivering a load of lumber on a flatbed truck to the driving shed and had removed the straps from the front units. While he was removing the straps from the middle units, a forklift unloaded two units from the front of the truck. As the forklift pulled away, a unit from the middle fell off the truck and hit the driver, fracturing his hip. No order covered this situation, but Pacific Lumber now requires its forklift operators to wait until the driver is in the clear, and the trucking company agreed to require its drivers to be in the clear when loading or unloading.

Keywords: FRACTURE, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, LUMBER, OFF LOADING, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, FLATBED TRUCK, HIP, TRUCK DRIVER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119722148			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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