Abstract: At approximately 7:20 a.m. on February 25, 2005, Employee #1 was searching for warehouse inventory while elevated on a stand-up forklift "Order Picker" to the fourth level of the storage rack, approximately 14 ft, 8 in. above a concrete floor. Employee #1 was working on the same elevated forklift platform with another employee who was operating the forklift at the time of the accident. Employee #1 leaned against a flip-up side gate on the aisle side of the forklift platform. The side gate snapped off at the weld joints causing him to lose his balance and fall. Employee #1 was not wearing a fall protection harness secured with a lanyard while elevated on the platform. Employee #1 sustained severe head, neck and spinal injuries resulting in a lacerated scull, a broken neck and several broken vertebrates in the back. Employee #1 was hospitalized.