Pratt & Whitney

An employee was reassembling a tool that consisted of a tube, an inner cylinder, and a cap that is used for engine assembly. The inner cylinder became wedged on the outer cylinder and while pushing down on the inner cylinder with the cap, it descended and caught the employee's right middle finger between the cap and the outer cylinder. This resulted in a partial amputation and fracture to the finger.

Two maintenance employees were disconnecting utility lines to remove a large oven. The injured employee was lying on his right side applying a valve lock device beneath the oven when his coworker cut the compressed air line, releasing the residual air pressure and allowing the door to glide down and pin the employee to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with rib compression fractures.

The employee was replacing an O-ring that sits on top of a hydraulic oil accumulator tank. The O-ring seals the accumulator tank and the oil manifold to the central cylinder, which had been removed for repair. The employee used a hydraulic jack to raise the oil manifold approximately 1 inch to allow for installation of the O-rings and the central cylinder. The jack slid from its position and the manifold dropped back to its normal resting position, striking and pinching the employee's right thumb. The employee sustained a fracture and open laceration to the thumb, near the knuckle joint.

An employee was installing test equipment on an engine and climbed a 6-step ladder to remove the electrical connectors. As the employee was reaching to disconnect the electrical connector, the ladder pushed outward from underneath the employee. The employee then fell 5 feet from the top step and suffered a contusion, concussion, and chest abrasion.

An employee was removing debris from a machine while waiting on the machine's cooling process to be completed. Due to a software error, the interlock system failed, allowing the machine's die to move and contact the employee's right thumb, which suffered an open fracture. The thump tip had to be medically amputated.

While conducting landscaping, an employee was bitten by an insect. The employee sustained an infection.

An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection.

On May 24, 2019, an employee was bitten by a spider. The employee was hospitalized the next day when the bite became infected.

An insect bit an employee who was working at a caf . The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was hospitalized on 12/21/2018 for an infection resulting from a spider bite that happened at work.

An employee was washing an aircraft from a scissor lift when they fell to the floor. The employee sustained a back injury and lacerations to their head and neck.

An employee was shaking a winglet to remove foreign object debris (FOD) after skin installation and injured his left shoulder.

An employee was troubleshooting a garage door. The door was in its closed position, but still had about an inch of travel when the manual release was triggered. Their right ring finger pad (distal phalanx) was pinched between a belt and pulley. The employee required medical amputation of the finger pad without loss of bone.

An employee slipped on a spot of water and fell to a concrete floor, suffering a broken hip.

An employee was running a high-pressure water cabinet waterblast unit. When the employee released the wand, it propelled itself out of the blast cabinet. The wand whipped around and the high-pressure water stream lacerated the employee's upper right arm.

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.