Mobile Equipment Accidents #8
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Worker hurt after falling from forklift (a man is in hospital with serious head injuries after falling from a forklift – the accident occurred at a building – two workers were removing scrap metal from the ceiling of a building that was being demolished when one of the men fell from a forklift)
Worker dies from injuries (a man, 51, who sustained serious head injuries in an industrial accident has died – he suffered the injuries in an accident at a building while two workers were removing scrap metal from the ceiling of a building that was being demolished when one of the men fell from a forklift with serious head injuries)
Excavator crushes man (man, 30, was crushed to death when the excavator he was driving toppled from a trailer – man was unloading the excavator from a truck when the accident occurred)
Worker killed when hit by forklift at school site (a construction worker was killed when he was hit by a forklift truck at the construction site of the new High School – the victim, 58, was an electrician – the accident occurred about 11 a.m. – he was among a group of workers who were crossing a parking lot after attending a meeting in the building – the forklift driver was headed around a curve and apparently did not see him – he was run over by the right rear tire of the forklift truck)
Man injured in fall at work – sent in by subscriber and I could not find a working link to the original article (worker,54, was standing on a pallet on a raised forklift when the accident happened at about 1:30 p.m. – he was loading boxes onto a shelving unit when he stepped off of the pallet – he fell and struck his head – he was badly injured)
Worker dies after becoming pinned by machinery at paper plant (a paper mill worker, 49, has died after becoming pinned by machinery – he was doing maintenance at the plant when he became pinned between the bucket and front of a skid steer – no other details)
Filtervac International Inc. fined $90,000 for health and safety … (a worker was using a large forklift truck to move a fabric bag containing clay that had been removed from filter cylinders when the forklift tipped over onto the driver’s side. The worker jumped off the forklift and tried to outrun it as it tipped, but was unable to get clear of the equipment and was struck on the head by the forklift’s “roll cage” (a structure that protects a forklift operator from being crushed if the forklift rolls over) and pinned under the cage. Co-workers attempted to lift the forklift off the worker using another forklift while waiting for emergency officials to arrive, but the worker died)
Tyson employee in Holcomb killed in on-the-job incident (an accident at the plant has claimed the life of an employee – since October, he’s the second worker in Kansas to lose his life from an on-the-job incident – worker, 56, a cleanup worker at the meatpacking plant, died from the injuries he sustained in the Dec. 12 accident – accident occurred in a rendering area after a forklift heading up a ramp slid or rolled backwards down the incline and rammed into a pair of double doors – he was on the opposite side of the doors, and when the forklift struck them, they opened, hitting the man in the face and causing head injuries)
Worker dies in accident at the workplace in El Ejido (a 35 year old worker was killed when he was run over by an excavator – it happened at his workplace, a cement company – emergency services could only record his death on their arrival)
Fatal forklift accident at Port of Houston (the female victim was apparently run over by a forklift shortly after 10 a.m.)
Accident causes minor flooding in Union (water flooded the building after staff workers accidentally sheared off a sprinkler head while moving equipment)
Marine dies in forklift accident (Sgt., 24, died at 12:16 p.m. when the forklift he was operating overturned – cause of the accident is under investigation)
Forklift, driver fall into water in accident at fish port (workers at fishing dock panicked when a forklift and its driver fell into the water – worker suffered only bruises but the forklift would have to undergo major repairs -worker might have miscalculated while maneuvering the forklift because of the narrowness of the way)
Vanterm worker run over, killed (a longshoreman close to retirement was killed when he was struck by a truck or another piece of heavy equipment at the terminal – the body of the victim, who was 63, was found lying on the ground in the terminal – it appeared he had been run over)
Man trapped at work on first day (a 19-year-old had to be taken to hospital on his first day in a new job after being pinned to a wall by a forklift truck – fire service took 40 minutes to free him using hydraulic equipment)
Mesa girl killed in forklift accident (a 10-year-old Mesa girl died after her father accidentally ran over her with a forklift last week – on Jan. 2, her father, 43, was giving her and three friends a ride on a forklift at his wholesale store when she tripped, fell and was crushed by the machine – the child had been getting on and off a pallet and running next to the forklift when she fell)
Woman selling ear protectors was crushed to death by forklift … (a woman was crushed beneath the wheels of a forklift truck as she pressed its pedals with her hands to demonstrate its noise to a man she was selling a set of ear protectors – worker, 37, died of colossal crush injuries following the accident at the premises of her employer)
Accident kills forklift operator (worker, 47, was operating a stand-up forklift when she backed into a metal gate, causing “crushing injuries” – a mother of four and a grandmother of three – have young children, ages 4, 2 and 9 months – was a “relatively recent hire” and had been working there for about five months)
Forklift Crash Crushes Man (a man was killed when the forklift he was driving on the shoulder slid down a bank and pinned him)
Worker Dies In Construction Accident (a worker was killed when the roller he was driving fell about 35 feet from an off ramp at an Interstate 40 construction site – no other details)
Tractor accident kills dairy worker (the 22-year-old dairy farm worker was behind the wheel of a tractor being towed along a country road when it rolled)
Worker dies in construction accident in Stony Point (a 33-year-old worker died an hour after being struck by an excavator digging outside a house – was hit by the excavator’s bucket and forced into the side of the house)
Worker falls off cliff in bulldozer at Sherwood quarry (an industrial worker was killed after toppling off a cliff in a bulldozer he was operating at a rock quarry – fell off the side of a cliff estimated to be about three stories high and the bulldozer came to rest upside down in a water-filled gravel pit)
Citizens Gas worker dies in accident (a gas employee died in a rail car accident at the company’s coke plant – was a veteran coal loader – witnesses told police three rail cars broke loose – the brakemen tried to stop them – when the worker tried to help, he fell between the wheels and one of the cars hit him)
UPDATE Report: Vineyard death deemed accident (the investigation into the death of a farmworker crushed beneath a grape harvester or tractor in a vineyard has ended with no citations issued to her employer)
Industrial Accident Kills One in Virginia Beach (a construction worker died when a machine malfunctioned at a job site – there was a machinery malfunction, and one of the workers got caught up in the conveyer belt – the machine is used to crush stone)
Construction worker crushed to death near Oceana (a construction worker was snatched up by a mammoth rock-crushing machine and was crushed to death – a machine that was breaking up an old runway across from the base malfunctioned)
Tragedy of man crushed by tractor (a man died from internal injuries after being crushed against a wall by a tractor and trailer – the retired farm worker had been helping out at the farm when the accident happened)
Council worker killed by refuse truck in Northumberland (a refuse collection officer has been killed following an accident involving a refuse collection vehicle – worker, 51, was working when the incident happened just before 7am – he left his collection vehicle and it rolled forward and hit him)
Worker killed in fork lift accident (worker, 50, was pinned between the frame and hydraulic arm of the fork lift – he later died of a crushing injury – no witnesses – preliminary findings indicated multiple facial and skull fractures and brain injuries)
Refuse worker dies after being hit by bin lorry (worker, 51, had got out the lorry and walked in front of it, but the vehicle moved forward and collided with him)
Bulldozer Accident (a local construction worker was run over by a bulldozer – a man got off the bulldozer, but left it running..that’s when it started to roll backwards – when he tried to climb back onto the bulldozer he slipped, and fell under one of the tracks)
UPDATE Accident at work kills Macomb man (according to a press release, at noon the worker, along with another employee, were unloading pieces of heavy machinery from a truck in the dock area – as one piece of machinery was being removed from the truck on to a fork lift, another piece fell out of the truck onto the worker killing him instantly)
Worker dies after accident at Biffa waste site (a 52-year-old man who has not yet been named by the authorities, was hit by a vehicle at the waste transfer station)
BUCKLE UP!!! Man, 20, killed in forklift accident (a forklift fell on the 20-year-old at the beginning of his 12-hour shift at a masonry plant – it looks as though he attempted to jump from the vehicle and the forklift fell on its side, trapping him underneath)
UPDATE Mattel Canada Inc. fined $65,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was using a lift truck to lift a load weighing 910 kilograms (2,006 pounds) when the truck and load fell forward onto the truck’s front end – the worker’s left wrist was broken in the incident)
Worker pinned between forklift, car at construction site (worker was airlifted to an area hospital after he was pinned between a forklift and a car at a construction site – no immediate information on the cause of the accident or nature of the man’s injuries)
Worker crushed to death by lorries (a middle-aged man has been crushed to death between two lorries – it is believed he tried to stop one lorry from hitting another)
Man airlifted to UMC with broken legs (a 43-year-old man was airlifted to University Medical Center after he was pinned between a forklift and a load of lumber and plywood – he got down from the forklift he was operating to adjust a load and that’s when he became pinned between the machine and the load, breaking both of his legs)
US 395 construction worker killed in industrial accident (a construction worker had been killed in a heavy equipment accident – the construction worker was operating a grader, a large vehicle similar to a tractor, on a hillside – for unknown reasons, the worker lost control of the grader and it drove off a roadway and down an embankment – the worker came out of the grader and was crushed by the machine)
Concrete truck tips, kills 20-year-old worker (a 20-year-old construction worker was killed after the arm of a concrete-pumping truck collapsed while pouring – worker was pinned beneath the concrete-pumping boom – three other workers who were not identified also suffered moderate to minor injuries, including a broken leg – construction crews were pouring concrete at a rural, unfinished housing development when the truck tipped forward onto its front wheels)
UPDATE Fined for causing accident at Freeport (a 40-year-old man was fined Lm500 after he was found guilty of charges of causing serious injuries through negligence or lack of thought to his work colleague – the accident took place on August 19th, 1999, when he was operating a fork-lifter crane known as tank master in order to lift a container and move it from one place to another – hit a container that was on top of another three containers and toppled it over – the container fell and plunged over the tank master’s cabin and consequently injured the worker)
Highway worker killed in accident (a highway construction worker was killed in an accident involving heavy machinery – the 38-year old Austin man was working on a machine that lays pavement on the highway when he somehow became entangled in it – the individual was working in front of the machine and accidentally became entangled in the auger that was on the machine and was killed)
Worker hurt at Yeager Airport (a man operating a dump truck at the Airport’s runway extension project was injured when the vehicle’s cab twisted away from its dump bed and overturned as he was offloading a cargo of mud – was operating an articulated truck, where the dump bed and cab are connected by a swiveling pivot – he was dumping mud out of his truck that had been scraped off the haul road to get it dried up)
Md. Coal Mine Accident Kills 35-Year-Old Man (a 35-year-old Maryland man was killed in a coal mine – was apparently crushed between a mine locomotive and mining equipment that was being carried by a car pulled by a second mine locomotive – he was standing to the rear of a locomotive which was pulling a lowboy loaded with shields – Aa second mine worker, who was operating a second locomotive, also loaded with shields, approached the victim apparently not seeing him standing there – victim was crushed between the locomotive and the overhanging shields)
Rollover of lift kills worker (a 46-year-old employee at a bearing plant was killed when he was crushed by the lift equipment he was operating – was driving a lift at the plant around 2 a.m. when the lift rolled off a loading dock, causing the vehicle to roll over and pin the man underneath)
Worker in critical condition after being pinned by forklift (workers arrived to find the 45-year-old man pinned under a forklift truck – the worker sustained serious lower body injuries in the mishap and has been transferred to an intensive care unit – the man is believed to have been operating the forklift near a docking bay at the time of the incident – no other workers were in the immediate area when the accident occurred)
Construction Site Accident Leaves One Dead (worker, 38, was killed in an accident – had been with the company for a year – died during a paving operation – there was a large piece of machinery paving the overpass itself, and the individual was working in front of the machine and accidentally became entangled in the augger that was on the machine and was killed)
Waste Management Worker Hit/Killed in Accident (the worker was on his collection route – it was dawn alongside a road when a routine day on the job turned deadly for the 44-year-old – he was emptying a garbage can into the back of his truck when a vehicle, driven by a 19 year old, hit and pinned him, killing him instantly)
Monorail worker hurt at Newark Liberty (a man doing maintenance work on the track for the monorail system at the airport was injured – investigation is ongoing about the accident – worker was an employee the company that manages and operates the monorail systems – was injured while performing maintenance on a switch, and the accident had nothing to do with the vehicle – he is in the hospital with a fractured pelvis)
Worker is crushed to death in Ulster County construction accident (a man,47, was killed while operating an exactor – 47, had pinned himself between the excavator and a tree – while he attempted to exit the cab, he hit a lever that caused the cab to rotate and trap him)
Forklift tragedy woman named (a woman, 24, died after a forklift truck fell on top of her – no other details)
Backhoe accident leaves one dead ((a construction worker was killed when he became pinned under the arm of a backhoe at a home construction site – man had been operating the machine by himself and had apparently walked around to the back when he became entangled in the mechanisms)
Worker dies after mishap at Bay View (a man died from severe injuries he suffered after he and a co-worker were run over by an all-terrain forklift – forklift truck driver was backing up at the site of the expansion sewer hole when one of the truck’s wheels hit and ran over the workers)
Construction Accident Kills Worker In Virginia Beach – UPDATE (the 31-year-old construction worker was working with a stone crushing machine when investigators say the machine malfunctioned – the worker got caught up in the conveyor belt and was crushed to death)