Abstract: At 2:56 p.m. on February 8, 2007, Employee #1 was working as an employee of Priority Staffing Services, a temporary staffing agency. He had been assigned to work at Motorcar Parts of America (MPA), in Torrance, CA, where he and a coworker were working in the same aisle location in a warehouse. They were picking orders from the same rack on identical Caterpillar Model NOR-30P electric order-picker forklifts, with the forks of the two trucks facing each other. The coworker apparently got his forks under those of Employee #1's truck. Employee #1, not knowing this, gave his unit full power trying to descend. When the coworker saw what was happening, he drew back. The elevated platform of Employee #1's truck descended rapidly due to chain slack and hydraulic drawdown. As the platform descended, he got off balance and fell or jumped from the forklift. The rapidly descending platform was only about one-and-a-half feet above the floor, when Employee #1's leg extended from the platform. His full-body fall arrest harness did not have the time or distance to deploy. Employee #1 struck his leg against the concrete floor, fracturing the fibula and tibia of his right leg. Paramedics were called, and Employee #1 was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital. He was hospitalized.