Forklift Accidents – Who Can Help If I Am Injured?

For moving variety of industrial materials, fork lift is the most important carrier in the industries. Besides, the benefits of this machinery of carrying the goods around, these machines could turn out to be dangerous too. Most of the construction accidents occur due to these fork lifters. It has been calculated that more than one thousand workers are killed in the fork lifter’s accidents on the construction sites. The most occurring accident is when the fork lifter tip’s off. The main reason behind this type of accident is the over loading of heavy material, which the fork lifter in unable to carry. Another most occurring accident is the falling of the lifted material from the fork lift.

If you want to avoid any such types of accidents at the construction site then you must be ensured that the fork lifter is carrying appropriate weight. The other additional factors which could also result into the fork lifting accident are: behavioral, operational, organizational or mechanical. However, you must be aware about the following statistics for keeping your people safe at work:

In general, 18% of accidents occur due to the employees stuck in the fork lifter or are caused especially due to the carelessness of the employees. While lifting people, there are 15% chance that an accident can occur; if the fork lift is improperly handled in the area having unsafe circumstances then the chances of the accident is 7%; Also the maintenance is a major factor in causing the accident and the ratio of such accidents is 7%; there may be a chance that the operator may lose the control at any point of time and the chances of such accident is 3%. These accidents could be controlled, if the people operating the fork lifter are trained.