48-year-old over the work of the forklift and died by forklifts in Munich

On Monday there was already one on a company premises in the Milbertshofen district of Munich fatal work accident. A 48-year-old man died, like the police Munich communicated. Accordingly, the accident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, the cause of the accident is still unclear.

As the police explain, a 50-year-old who lives in the Miesbach district drove a forklift on Monday afternoon at work on the Munich company premises. This transported two empty metal containers on the fork. The 48-year-old accident had been on foot in the company at the same time.

Forklift accident in Munich: 48-year-old dead

After all, the 48-year-old was hit by the front of the transported containers « for previously unknown reasons », the police described. « He fell and was overwhelmed by the left front wheel of the forklift, » it continues.

The 48-year-old suffered so serious injuries that he died of the accident stall. The Munich public prosecutor subsequently ordered a so -called accident analytical report. For this, an appraiser was deployed at the scene of the accident. The Munich traffic police have taken over the further investigation.

Ancession accident with forklifts is said to have happened at BMW

Several media, including Süddeutsche Zeitung and T-online report that the affected company should be the Munich carmaker BMW. According to data from 2022 of the European statistics of work accidents (ESAW), almost one person of 100,000 will be employed Victim of a deadly work accident. However, the number has dropped sharply in the past decades, there were twice as many in 2006. The statistics also stated that 91.7 percent of the men who were fatally crashed in work accidents are.