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I highly recommend Carolina Forklift Safety for your company's safety training classes. They were very thorough and helped my company a great deal.
- Pam Fernander
CNC Operator
Earnhardt Manufacturing, LLC has had several training sessions for our forklift drivers through Carolina Forklift Safety, and we are preparing for another class in the near future. The trainers are experts in this field and very helpful to our team. The training, plus the written and hands-on testing are excellent. We recommend them highly!
- Kathy Compton
Accounting Manager
We use the services at Carolina Forklift Safety for all our forklift training. They know how to get the training done in a relaxed, informative and professional way. They treat every trainee as if they are the most important person on the planet and can inspire confidence in the most nervous trainee. They are really good people, and its a pleasure to do business with Carolina Forklift Safety.
- Janneke Mass
EHS Leader
On Thursday, January 15, 1998, a 33-year-old male industrial truck operator was fatally injured when the forklift he was driving down a ramp, lost traction and skidded off the side of the ramp. The victim tried to jump free of the forklift, but he jumped in the direction the vehicle was tilting. The forklift's overhead guard struck and pinned the victim to the ground and against an automobile parked nearby.
Maryland Division of Labor and Industry
Maryland FACE Program
Case 98MD00501
On July 21, 1997, a 36-year-old male electric-line technician was fatally injured after falling from and being run over by a forklift. While the operator was driving the forklift, the victim was riding on the forks. As the operator approached an intersection, he slowed down and turned his head to check for oncoming traffic. When he turned his head back, he could not see the victim. He stopped the forklift, dismounted, and found the victim underneath the right side of the forklift [NIOSH 1997a]
On April 25, 1995, a 37-year-old shop foreman was fatally injured after the sit-down type forklift he was operating overturned. The victim was turning while backing down an incline with a 4% grade. The forklift was transporting a 3-foot-high 150-pound stack of cardboard with the forks raised approximately 60 inches off the ground . No one witnessed the incident. The victim was found with his head pinned under the overhead guard. The forklift was not equipped with a seat belt [California Department of Health Services 1996]
On September 6, 1995, a 47-year-old male assistant warehouse manager was fatally injured while working with a forklift operator to pull tires from a storage rack. The two workers had placed a wooden pallet on the forks of the forklift, and the victim then stood on the pallet. The operator rased the forks and victim 16 feet above a concrete floor to the top of the storage rack. The victim had placed a few tires on the pallet when the operator noticed that the pallet was becoming unstable. The victim lost his balance and fell, striking his head on the floor [NIOSH 1996a].