Accident: 170205827 - Two Injured When Struck By Loaded Cart
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on July 23, 1999, Employees #1 and #2, both iron workers, were on the third floor waiting for a load of "stirrups" (re-bar sections) to be landed. The bundle came through a wall opening, and they landed the load onto a cart. They repositioned the stirrups in the cart and, within a minute, one end of the floor dropped to the second floor, at an angle. The cart with the stirrups pinned Employee #1 against the wall, and he suffered a fractured right cheek and facial lacerations. Employee #2 was lodged next to the wall opening and suffered a contusion of his right thigh. They were taken to San Francisco General Hospital.
construction, pinned, fracture, face, fall, iron worker, caught between, laceration, contusion, cart
Accident: 120323878 - Killed When Forklift Collides With Electric Cart
At approximately 12:40 p.m. on April 7, 1999, Employee #1, a welder/mechanic employed by Rialto Concrete Products, Inc., was operating an electric vehicle in the pipe storage yard. It was struck by a large forklift loaded with five sections of 8 ft by 18 in. concrete pipe, which was traveling in the opposite direction. Employee #1 was killed.
ind trk operator, driver, industrial truck, struck by, motor vehicle, vehicle, collision, mech mat handling, cart
Accident: 665737 - Killed When Cart Becomes Caught Under Trailer
At approximately 2:00 p.m., Employee #1, while driving an electric-powered cargo and personnel cart to the area around the trash dumpster. At approximately 2:54 p.m., two coworkers discovered Employee #1's body in the cart. He had been killed. Employee #1 had apparently driven under the front of a disconnected tractor/trailer next to the dumpster, and had become caught and crushed.
driver, clearance, caught between, inattention, cart, motor vehicle, vehicle, towmotor, crushed
Accident: 119957801 - Injured By Backing Industrial Truck Cart
At approximately 6:10 p.m. on February 2, 1999, Employee #1 was seriously injured when an industrial truck utility cart was backed into him and pinned him against a rail car. He sustained abrasions and contusions, and was hospitalized for three days.
abrasion, contusion, backing up, struck by, pinned, caught between, inattention, industrial truck, cart, railroad car
Accident: 170074256 - Killed When Caught Between Carrier And Rail
Employee #1 was moving a carrier into the work area when he became trapped between the carrier and the rail. He was killed.
cart, caught between
Accident: 170387815 - Killed When Struck By Falling Metal Cart
Employee #1 was at an outside door using a lift truck to retrieve approximately 46 in. long by 57 in. wide by 45 in. tall metal carts stacked on top of each other in racks. Each rack had four 8 in. metal wheels, and the top of the racks had 5 in. high metal toeboards on three sides. The racks were 56 in. behind a semi-trailer and angled with the right rear wheel of the bottom rack on top of a concave drain grate. Employee #1 was between the stacked carts and the semi-trailer, with the open sides facing the trailer, when he pulled on the bottom rack to straighten and remove a cart. The top rack rolled off of the bottom rack, pinning Employee #1 against the semi-trailer. He was killed. Each cart weighed approximately 500 lb.
falling object, industrial truck, pinned, storage rack, unsecured, struck by, ind trk operator, work rules, cart, mech mat handling
Accident: 170572382 - Leg Fractured When Struck By Falling Buggy
Employee #1 was performing his usual task of moving buggies on a concrete dock when he lost control of the buggy and fell 4 ft to the ground. The cart fell on top of him, fracturing his leg above the ankle.
overturn, lost control, loading dock, vehicle, cart, manual mat handling, fall, falling object, leg, fracture
Accident: 170616023 - Injured When Crushed Between Push Cart And Wall
At approximately 7:45 p.m. on December 8, 1997, Employee #1, of Mercy Hospital, was pushing a food cart down a ramp when she lost control of it. As she tried to stop the cart, she was crushed between it and a wall. Employee #1 suffered a fractured ankle and a lacerated ear, for which she was hospitalized.
ankle, crushed, ramp, lost control, pinned, cart, manual mat handling, laceration, ear
Accident: 125892356 - Fingertip Amputated Between Cargo Dollies
At approximately 1:18 a.m. on December 5, 1997, Employee #1, a ramp worker for United Parcel Service, was connecting two cargo dollies on the UPS ramp at the Ontario (CA) Airport when the tip of her left middle finger was amputated. She was taken by private automobile to the Chino Valley Hospital, where she was treated and released.
finger, amputated, caught between, mech mat handling, towmotor, cart, work rules, unsecured
