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Employee was driving a forklift with their forks lowered to ground level when they struck a raised section of flooring. The forklift came to halt which cause whiplash type injuries. Employee was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.
Driving down to clean railroad tracks. On way back up to main road passing rail car hit frozen piled up material and hit head on plastic heater column. Seat belt held me down head and neck hit heater column.
Driving forklift into aisle 3, hit the brakes and slid into I beam. Then before hitting I beam, I put my hand out and it cut my middle finger.
Exited Fork truck, arm accidentally hit the drive forward lever, foot was caught under fork truck tire for 3 seconds then rolled over it.
Employee was driving forklift. Fork caught in bridge deck. Sudden stop forced employees ribs into steering wheel.
The employee forgot to engage the parking brake on the forklift. He got off to untie a sack, and the lift started to roll towards him. The lift hit a beam which stopped it, but a sack of material fell on his right ankle.
While helping the screen #3 Operator hang a sack at the floor dump, the forklift Operator lowered the forks to quickly and the employee's finger got caught between the hooks of the forklift and the sack of material.