A shipper-receiver at a warehouse was crushed to death when he was pinned by the open back door of a van which was backing up. He had been loading material into the van with a fellow worker. After the van was loaded, the rear doors were left open and the other worker started to move the van away from the warehouse. The second worker was not an experienced driver, and it appears he mistakenly put the vehicle into reverse. The victim was pinned between a rear door of the van and an I-beam on the warehouse dock. This mishap could happen anywhere […]

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