A dockworker was crushed by a falling stack of fiberboard. It was part of the cargo that had come from a freight ship and was being moved by forklift to a warehouse. The forklift operator started to pick up a load of crates. He did not realize they were smaller than those he had been hauling previously so he did not adjust the forks for the load. The overextended forks bumped an adjacent stack of crates, which fell on the other worker. Many kinds of fatal incidents are associated with forklifts. Forklifts have rolled over, crushing the operator. They have fallen […]
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