{"id":32400,"date":"2009-06-03T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/forklift_accidents_usually_ser\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:59:11","slug":"forklift-accidents-usually-ser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/forklift-accidents-usually-ser\/","title":{"rendered":"Forklift Accidents: Usually Serious And Oftentimes Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, I was hired as a forklift driver at a textile plant.  I was given no training whatsoever, had never operated a forklift and within hours was lifting huge pallets of heavy materials high into the air for placement on warehouse shelving.  Fortunately, I did not injury anyone or kill myself, but I easily could have.  Indeed, that same summer a high school friend of mine lost his life when he accidently drove a forklift backwards off of a loading ramp, killing himself in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month or two ago, here in Atlanta, I read about a news story where one employee at a car dealership was training another employee on how to drive a forklift when the co-worker overran the employee killing him.  Here at Finch McCranie, we have represented individuals who were involved in industrial accidents where they were struck by forklifts inside of manufacturing facilities.  These cases typically result in very serious personal injuries involving amputations, paralysis or death.  Incredibility, my experience in high school is repeated over and over again as oftentimes the operator of these forklifts has been provided little or no training.  Today, this is a violation of OSHA regulations.  It was not in the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Forklifts are very heavy and very dangerous industrial vehicles involved every year  in a large number of deaths and serious injuries in the workplace.  Many of the injuries and fatalities committed while these vehicles are being operated could have been prevented if the operators had been properly trained and\/or had properly protected themselves.  Oftentimes, the operators of these vehicles are not wearing seatbelts and\/or seatbelts are not even provided for their use.  If such a vehicle overturns, because of its weight, the operator can be crushed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/forklift-accidents-usually-ser\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Forklift Accidents: Usually Serious And Oftentimes Deadly\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, I was hired as a forklift driver at a textile plant. I was given no training whatsoever, had never operated a forklift and within hours was lifting huge pallets of heavy materials high into the air for placement on warehouse shelving. Fortunately, I did not injury anyone or kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-32400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forklift Accidents: Usually Serious And Oftentimes Deadly &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; June 3, 2009<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When I was in high school, I was hired as a forklift driver at a textile plant. 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