Employers and Industry are well aware of the dangers associated with forklift operations.  Despite this, many employers and businesses fail to take appropriate measures.  Moreover, same forklift equipment might be defective or improperly manufactured contributing to the cause of an accident or injury.  We handle cases in Texas and other states involving injuries related to warehouse operations and forklift operations including.  Forklift injuries occur to pedestrians and workers who are struck, employees during the operation of a forklift, employees falling from forklifts or being crushed, and forklitfs that overturn.

Facts & Statistics (Known Dangers)

• Forklifts injure and kill over 90,000 Americans each and every year in this country.
• In 2007, out of the 5,488 deaths in the US, 1,423 of the deaths came under the “transportation and material moving occupations”, which is the highest death rate category.  see PDF file titled “Industry by Transportation Incidents & Homicides” also see Bureau Statistics Charts.  
• The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (”NIOSH”) reports that every 3 days someone in the US is killed in a forklift related accident and each year, an additional 94,750 injuries related to forklift accidents are reported. 

• In the United States, 1,021 workers died from traumatic injuries suffered in forklift-related incidents from 1980 to 1994. The NTOF Surveillance System uses death certificates to identify work-related deaths. These fatalities resulted from the following types of incidents:  Forklift overturns 22% Worker on foot struck by forklift 20% Victim crushed by forklift 16% Fall from forklift 9%