National Forklift Safety Day: Encouraging Safe Behavior Around Powered Industrial Trucks
Forklift fatalities and injuries are on the rise and the Industrial Truck Association is trying to do something about it.
In 2011, according to the 2014 edition of Injury Facts from the National Safety Council, 66 workers died as a result of operating or worker near a forklift. A forklift was a secondary source of fatal injuries for an additional 24 workers. Those numbers are up from 2010, in which forklifts were a primary source of fatal injury for 54 workers and a secondary source of fatal injury for 31 workers.
