Roll of Honor
Michael Clifton Baskett
Incident
Supervisor Michael Baskett was killed after being struck by a motorized delivery cart while supervising inmates inside the food services warehouse at the Federal Medical Center Butner in Butner, North Carolina.
Supervisor Baskett was speaking with a delivery driver when an inmate in another part of the warehouse placed a box of paper on the cart's floorboard. The box accidentally depressed the forklift's accelerator, which caused it to move forward at full speed. As the cart sped across the warehouse floor Supervisor Baskett pushed the delivery driver out of its path, saving her life. The cart struck him, pinning him underneath it.
Several inmates and other officers immediately moved the cart off of him and began CPR, but were unable to revive him.
Supervisor Baskett was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 18 years. He had previously served with the North Carolina Department of Corrections for nine years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, two children, and two step children.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Supervisor Baskett gave the United States Department of Justice 27 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Michael Clifton Baskett served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
Supervisor Michael Clifton Baskett is one of 10,095 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,587 officers honored here.
In DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Prisons, 4 of 34 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 11.8% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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Incident Location
Military Service
Michael Clifton Baskett served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
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