General Tool Safety

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Forklift Operation
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Fork Lift Accidents

• OSHA estimates that there are 680,400 accidents
  each year
• Approximately 90,000 employees suffer some type
  of injury

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Fork Lift Accidents

• Losses affect employees
• Physical suffering
• Mental suffering

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Benefits of Fork lifts

• Assist in the movement of materials
• Reduce employee injuries

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Fork Lift operating environments

• Pedestrians
• Blind spots
• Indoors/Outdoors
• Narrow aisles
• Building columns
• Operate 24 hours per day
• Turning radius

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Fork Lift and Pedestrians

• Pedestrians contribute to accidents
• Pedestrians do not understand stopping distances
• Pedestrians tried to beat a lift truck

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Methods used to reduce Fork Lift Accidents

• Training of drivers
• Maintenance of equipment
• Areas of operation

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Fork Lift Accidents

• Losses affect all employers
• Damage to equipment
• Damage to materials
• Loss in productivity

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Powered Industrial Truck Accidents 1985-1990

• 680,400 Forklift Accidents
• 90,000 employees injured
• 100 deaths

Source Powered industrial truck accidents report
through OSHAs First report of serious
accidents 1985-1990
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What Causes Lift Truck Accidents?(in )
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What Causes Lift Truck Accidents? (in )
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What Causes Lift Truck Accidents? (in )
Electrocutions
Improper use of fork lift
Employee fell from fork lift
Unloading unchocked trailer
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Forklift Operation
Powered Industrial Truck Operation Training
Office of Engineering Safety Texas Engineering
Experiment Station (TEES) The Dwight Look
College of Engineering
A safe, healthful, and secure environment for
scholarship and research.