Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Fractures and dislocations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Textron Aviation Inc, 101 N Greenwich, WICHITA, KANSAS 67206
on — Fractures and dislocations, affecting the neck and back.
Final narrative
The employee was working at a sub-assembly jig that is 66 inches tall and 33 inches wide. The employee was getting up from performing a drilling operation on the underside of the jig. She grabbed onto the jig to assist herself in standing and the jig fell over onto her. The employee sustained subluxation and disruption of the spinolaminar ligament at C-7-T-1 and end plate compression fractures of T-7 through T-1.
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