Accident Factors
Workplace type and conditions are the two most basic factors associated with powered industrial trucks hazards.
For example, retail establishments often face greater challenges than other worksites in maintaining pedestrian safety. Beyond that, many workers and others can also be injured in any of the following scenarios:
- Lift trucks are accidentally driven off loading docks.
- Lifts fall between docks and an unsecured trailer.
- Workers are struck by a lift truck.
- Workers fall while on elevated pallets and tines.
- Workers have not been properly educated and trained in the principles of physics that allow a forklift to lift heavy loads.
- Workers are not familiar with how a particular forklift operates.
- Workers operate the forklift carelessly.
- Workers use defective or malfunctioning forklifts.
Determining the best way to protect workers from injury largely depends on the type of truck operated and the worksite where it is being used. Employers must ensure that each powered industrial truck operator is competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluation specified in 29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1).
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7-3. Which basic workplace factors are commonly associated with powered industrial truck hazards?
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