A bank vault installer was crushed to death between a forklift and a steel panel. Ordinarily the panels are moved by a lifting device which is part of the vault panel. However, on this vault panel the device was damaged and defective. Instead, chains had been used to hold the panel in place on the forks. The panel could not be moved into the correct position because of the chains, so the victim reached up to make an adjustment to the chains. The panel started to fall, pulling the forklift over with it. The victim was pinned between the forklift roll bar […]
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