Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 908020 - Employee killed when head pinned between forklift and door

Accident Summary Nr: 908020 -- Report ID: 0454520 -- Event Date: 07/19/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111020004	07/23/1990	8249	0	Aiken Vocational Rehabilitation Center

Abstract: Employee #1 was driving a forklift from the warehouse to the outdoors when his neck was caught between the forklift frame and the frame of the bay door. Employee #1 died of positional asphyxia. The employee had plenty of room to go through the door. No one knows why the employee, who had been trained to operate a forklift, came so close to the frame of the door. The doorway was unobstructed and the forklift was new and had no defects.

Keywords: HEAD, ASPHYXIATED, PINNED, WORK RULES, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, DOOR

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111020004			Fatality	Asphyxia	Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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