MASE Product Failure Injury Report
Product involved:Toyota
Product involved:
What happened: Workers were being raised and lowered from an elevated position using a forklift with a pallet to stand on. After raising two workers to the elevated position, the driver of the forklift reportedly left the forklift. One of the workers climbed down the mast of the forklift. This worker became crushed between the top of the lift and masts of the forklift.
Injuries: Fatal
Recommendations: Guarding the pinch and shear points of the forklift, particularly safeguarding the mast assembly of the forklift
OSHA violations?: Yes, failure to guard an elevated position to protect workers from falling, needed guarding on side of platform adjacent to forklift mast, failure to provide training
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