| A worker is walking along an aisle with a waste box in his hands in a particleboard manufacturing plant. He is cleaning the shop with earplugs on. A lift truck loaded with particleboards is about to catch up with him from behind. |
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He suddenly stepped down to the aisle to walk around a pillar. As the lift truck operator had sighted him, he was cautiously driving the lift truck. He hit the brake to see the worker stepped down all of sudden. But a heap of particleboards on the pallet collapsed and fell over the worker.
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| Tips for forestalling similar accidents
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Provide a sufficient width to the aisles in a plant so that the workers can walk along safely. |
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Instruct a lift truck operator to tilt back the mast of a lift truck sufficiently, when loaded. |
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Train the workers intensively for observing the basics for walking along the aisles without fail, such as check of the right and left directions, stand-by, etc. |
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Instruct the workers to remove all personal protective equipments like dust-proof goggles and earplugs, while walking. |
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In such a noisy workplace as to require earplugs, install a rotating yellow lamp on lift trucks that optically warns approach of the vehicle from a distance. |
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FORKLIFT ACCIDENT CASE28
