Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 88104.015 - Employee is killed when crushed by falling container

Accident Summary Nr: 88104.015 -- Report ID: 0214200 -- Event Date: 08/15/2016
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1170657.015	08/15/2016		488210	H&M International Transportation, Inc.

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on August 15, 2016, Employee #1, a forklift operator, was using a Hoist Side loader forklift to unload intermodal containers from railroad well cars and placing them on chassis pulled by hostler trucks. The employee was loading a 53 foot intermodal container with the forklift from the railroad well car when the mast hinge area of the forklift failed and the container fell on the cab of the forklift. The forklift was not overloaded, however the majority of the weight in the container was on the forklift's left side.The falling container and mast of the forklift crushed Employee #1 in the cab of the forklift causing multisystem trauma, killing him.

Keywords: Containerized Cargo, Crushed, Falling Object, Loading, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Unstable Load

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1170657.015	51	M	Fatality		Operating engineers

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