Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at WORLDWIDE FLIGHT SERVICES, BUILDING 151-RM 304, JFK INT'L AIRPORT, JAMAICA, NEW YORK 11430
on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
On 02/05/17, around 4:30 p.m., an employee was standing in the parking lot when a coworker reversed his vehicle and ran over her left foot. She suffered foot fractures and required surgery.
An employee was offloading an airplane flight. After driving a transporter car to place a pallet on a static rack, he got off the transporter to apply the lock and secure the pallet on the rack. The pallet began to roll off the rack and pinned the employee against the transporter. He suffered a broken right leg.
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An employee was transferring cargo/freight from a K-loader onto a dolly. The pallet rolled to the opposite end of the dolly where the employee was standing and fell on him. He was crushed between a catering truck and the pallet and sustained chest injuries.
An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.
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An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds
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