Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 94443.015 - Employee's leg is impaled and fractured by forks of cherry p

Accident Summary Nr: 94443.015 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 02/23/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1212984.015	02/24/2017		493110	Veritiv Operating Company

Abstract: At approximately 5:00 p.m. on February 23, 2017, Employee #1 was helping a coworker put away stock. Pallets of corrugated boxes needed to be moved were stacked on top of each other and leaning. Employee #1 used a reach truck to take the top pallets down because the stacks seemed unstable. He took a pallet down and after blowing his horn, backed up with the load. As he was backing up he saw his coworker driving towards him on another reach truck. Employee #1 turned right hard to make avoid an accident then saw a cherry picker that was parked with the forks raised. Employee #1 crashed into the parked cherry picker with one of the forks going through his leg. Employee#1's leg was fractured in two places and he was hospitalized.

Keywords: Fracture, Impaled, Industrial Truck, Leg, Struck By

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1212984.015	49	M	Hospitalized injury		Equipment Operator: Heavy

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