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11831 RIVER HILLS DRIVE, BURNSVILLE, MN 55337
Standard 19260602 C01 VI
Standard 19260602 C01 VI
Standard 182065302
Standard 182065302
Standard 19260602 C01 II
Standard 19260602 C01 VI
Employee killed when struck by falling load of lumber
At approximately 2:10 p.m. on January 22, 1998, Employee #1, a carpenter, was wo rking in the vicinity of a Pettibone forklift with a platform on the elevated fo rks. The platform was carrying two coworkers, thirty 4 by 8 sheets of 7/16 in. O xboard stacked on the floor, and approximately ten 14 in. long 2 by 6 boards res ting on top of the guardrails. Another coworker was lowering the platform when t he forks tilted forward, causing about 21 sheets of the Oxboard and half of the 2 by 6 boards to slide forward and out of the platform. The unsecured platform a lso slid forward, but did not come off the forks. As the sheets of Oxboard moved forward, they hit a wall and then fell, striking Employee #1 on the side of his head. Emergency services was called and paramedics arrived on the scene within minutes. Employee #1 was transported to the regional hospital, where he was pron ounced dead on arrival due to closed head trauma.
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