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935 PRAIRIE CENTER DR., EDEN PRAIRIE, MN 55344
Standard 19260602 C01 VI
Employee's skull fractured in fall from forklift
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on March 28, 1986, Employee #1 was standing in a wood en trash box suspended approximately 64 in. above the ground by a Lull forklift. The forklift was moving in reverse when the box fell from the elevated forks, s truck Employee #1 on the back of the head, and threw him to the ground. His fore head struck the ground and he was hospitalized with a concussion and fractured s kull. The box was not secured to the forklift, and it lacked guarding on one sid e.
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