On April 9, 2003, a 19-year-old forklift operator was killed when a dump truck backed into, and overturned, his forklift. The incident occurred at a steel mill in the yard outside the melt shop where hot slag is collected from the furnace. The victim, a full-time plant employee who was also a part-time college student, was using a forklift to transport a large bag of bulk material into the plant. He was driving across an unmarked dirt roadway where a large dump truck was waiting to collect a load of slag. As the victim drove behind the truck, the driver backed his truck, unaware that the forklift was behind him. The truck struck and overturned the forklift, and the victim was crushed under the body of the forklift.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for New Jersey: Forklift Operator Killed When His Forklift is Overturned by a Backing Truck
2004
9 pages
Report
No indication
English
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Industrial Safety Engineering , Construction Equipment, Materials, & Supplies , Environmental Health & Safety , Occupational safety and health , Accident investigations , Construction workers , Fatalities , Accident analysis , Accident causes , Injuries , Industrial accidents , Forklifts , Construction equipment , Recommendations