Do your forklift operators consistently sound horns when turning around corners or entering trucks? The following story illustrates the necessity for this safety measure:

An Arizona woman lay dead for as long as three days while her husband frantically searched for her. She hadn’t met with foul play, but instead was a victim of a pedestrian incident involving a forklift.

Truck driver Sheila Ross was struck and pushed by a forklift as she walked along a loading dock at a Dole Food Co. warehouse in Yuma, AZ, in late January 2007. No one witnessed the collision.

The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Dole $9,000 for failing to follow its pedestrian traffic policy and for failing to have forklift operators sound horns on corners or when entering trucks.