Forklifts are industrial vehicles made to take the place of manual lifting and manual work. There are two forks or arms located at the front of the vehicle that are used to lift, lower, stack and unstack heavy loads. The loads are usually stacked on top of wooden pallets that the arms or forks fit into to bring a large quantity of things up or down at once. The drivers cause almost 50% of accidents involving forklifts. Normally, the driver has hit a pedestrian. Therefore, forklifts and people should not be in the vicinity of each other.
Some other forklift related accidents include:
Forklift tipping over and overturning
Collision with other vehicles or stationary objects
Part of the operator’s body leaning out of the cabin and hitting an object
The load falling off the pallets
There are things that can be done by the employee to reduce the number of forklift accidents. First, the driver should always perform a pre-safety check of the vehicle before operating. Once the driver sees that all is in tact, while driving the vehicle the driver should use safe handling procedures of the load. This includes paying close attention to the...
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