Incident date: 2020-12-17
NAICS industry code: 331513

An employee was transporting steel casting flasks from one area on a finishing floor to another area using a forklift. One of the turnbuckle posts ripped from the flask causing the load to shift on the forks of the forklift. Both flasks then rolled off the forks and pinned the employee underneath them. This also caused the flask coverings to separate from the flasks and the employee was covered in approximately 700 degree sand from the chest down. The employee suffered burns to his legs and fractures to his pelvis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate