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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 202491643 - Employeee Breaks Leg When Pinned By Forklift

**Accident: 202491643 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 05/03/2011**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
125827428	05/24/2011	1542	Clark & Sullivan Constructors Inc

This employer is a construction contractor building a court house. Employee #1 works for the company as an apprentice carpenter. Employee #1 was pinned between a concrete column and the rear tire of a forklift truck. The fork lift was backing out of a tight work area when the tire of the lift truck slid down the side of the excavated area for the column. The excavated area was approximately 16-inches deep. Employee #1 received a fractured right femur. No other details were provided.

Keywords: fracture, pinned, column, construction, industrial truck

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	2	42

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	125827428			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Stripping and curing concrete FatCause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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