It truly is a sad day when you here about the death of an employee, whether they are experienced with many years of service or as in this case a young individual just starting out. But this is not the fault of inspectors. If this young driver was indeed not trained then the burden falls back on the company that he works for, because it is their responsibility to make sure that their employees are fully trained to operate the equipment they will be using.
As for licensing lift trucks and knowing where they are, we number everyone of our trucks and we keep track of there locations at all times, and even in doing this, there is no way this accident would have been prevented just because they knew where the lift trucks were. This accident was caused (if the young driver was indeed not trained) due to lack of training and the lack of supervisors making sure all the lift truck operators were trained, basically by doing a simple part of their jobs, maybe this is where the investigation should start, find out who was not doing their job!!!!! Supervisors and upper management get paid to do their job also and making sure their employees are properly trainined to accomplish their assigned tasks is just a small part of it, and in this case the ball sounds like it was dropped.
I am not a government investigator, but a company trainer and I believe this was (and might still be) a company problem that needs to be fixed immediately!!!!! These types of accidents are preventable, someone just was not doing their job.