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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at SOUTHWEST AIRLINES , 6000 North Terminal Pkwy. , ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30320 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).

An employee was helping a coworker repair an aircraft tire. He removed a tire from a cart and leaned it against the cart to ready it for installation. The tire then fell onto his lower left leg, breaking it.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Tires, except bike

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

An employee was walking on the tarmac and conducting safety checks on an aircraft, when they slipped on ice and fell on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

Southwest Airlines

An employee was struck by a moving electric tug and he sustained a concussion, brain bleeding, and swelling on the back of his head.

Southwest Airlines

An employee was pulling a cart to connect with another cart when the ring of the brake bar crushed the employee's middle finger, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Southwest Airlines

An employee was offloading bags at a baggage claim area and began feeling ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion/dehydration.

Southwest Airlines

An employee was driving a tug to deliver luggage to a terminal. The employee was parking the tug when the brakes failed. The employee then jumped off. The tug struck the building and rebounded toward the employee, the wheels struck the employee's foot and he sustained ankle and toe fractures.

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Performance Contractors, Inc.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

WIRECO WORLDGROUP, INC.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

Owens & Minor - Pittsburgh Distribution Center

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Retro Tech Systems

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Creston Energy Group

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

An employee was clearing a jam on the airport baggage system conveyor when his left leg became caught between slats of the conveyor. The employee sustained fractures and tissue damage to his lower leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Delta Air Lines Inc

An employee was helping offload an aircraft. She was standing in the opening between a parked cart and an unoccupied aircraft tug when another vehicle struck a stationary bag cart, which then struck her. The employee suffered a skull fracture near the right eye, a right kneecap fracture, a nose fracture, and sinus damage, as well as soft tissue damage to the left calf and hip. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

Swissport USA, Inc.

An employee was working to refuel a truck. While handling the fuel hose(s), she experienced pain in her stomach. After completing the task, the employee drove back to the pad and the movement aggravated her abdominal pain. The employee was hospitalized with an abdominal sprain/strain.

Envoy Air, Inc

An employee was on a jetway overseeing the operation. As the jet bridge was retracted, the employee's left arm was caught between the jet bridge side walls. The employee sustained a degloving to their left forearm.

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

An employee was descending a fixed ladder on the side of a container loader. The employee fell from the ladder, landing on the ground about 6-8 feet below and sustained fractures to their back and pelvis.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.