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USA: Fatal crushing after wrong button pressed ......
Fatal crushing after wrong button pressed on forklift at poultry farm
The apparent misapplication of controls by a forklift operator led to the death by crushing of a man on an Arkansas poultry farm.
The 24-year old victim, a Mexican contract labourer at the Johnny Branscum chicken farm in Izard county in the north of the state, is understood to have mounted the forks of the forklift with a view to being raised to complete a task at height involving crates of chickens on the rear of a lorry.
The forklift operator inadvertently pressed the wrong button, the forks moved forward instead of being raised and the victim was crushed between the forklift and the lorry.
