Common forklift near misses include a pedestrian stepping out from a rack end into a truck's path, a forklift reversing toward someone the operator has not seen, two trucks meeting at a blind intersection, a load shifting or falling from the forks without hitting anyone, a truck speeding through a marked crossing, and a person walking under raised forks. Others happen at the dock: a trailer creeping away from the dock face during loading, or a truck rolling close to an open dock edge. Each is a warning that the same event with slightly different timing could cause a serious injury.
The full guide is what is a near miss, with definitions and further examples. Near misses tend to cluster at blind corners, dock doors and busy crossings, so a site map of reported and detected close calls points to where controls will matter.
Record each event with location, time, shift, the vehicles and people involved, and what nearly happened, so patterns become visible over weeks rather than relying on memory. Forklift crash prevention links each common collision type to its controls.