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Accident: 170717789 - Employee Pinned Between Fork Trucks

Accident: 170717789 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 06/04/1992
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
12394590906/12/19925399Price Company
At 10:03 a.m. on June 5, 1992, at the Price Company, Rancho Cordova, CA, Employee #1 was stepping from one electric fork truck to another. He stepped on the hydraulic brake release while mounting the vehicle, and to gain leverage to pull himself up, grabbed the directional throttle lever, causing the second fork truck to move in reverse. The power switch was on. Employee #1 was pinned against the fork truck he had just dismounted, causing moderate internal injuries.
Keywords: pinned, work rules, control lever, caught between, industrial truck
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 123945909 Hospitalized injury Bruise/Contus/Abras Occupation not reported

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