Greg,
I have studied your situation and have concluded it would be physicaly impossible for an operator to accelerate his body out of the drivers compartment unless he can generate about 3G's of lateral force to overcome the centrifugal force of excessive tailswing, maybe Arnold Swartzniegger could.
Besides that, why would he propel himself ahead of the direction of travel and pin himself between the forklift and the racking? Ah, maybe we are talking about Homer Simpson in brainpower.