105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

United Airlines

Pedestrian struck by aircraft or propeller · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at United Airlines, International Way, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101 on — Amputations, affecting the foot (feet), n.e.c..

Six employees were helping a large jet airplane back out of a hangar. The airplane's main tire ran over an employee's right foot, which was amputated.

Hospitalized Amputation Foot (feet), n.e.c. Airplane-jet or turbine engine

United Airlines

An employee experienced sharp pain in his lower torso area while loading baggage into the front cargo pit of an aircraft. The employee sustained a hernia.

United Airlines

An employee was offloading a new boom lift from a transporter truck. As the boom lift s rear wheels reached the tail lift of the truck, the tail lift broke, causing the boom lift to fall. As a result of the sudden drop, the employee was lifted into the air, striking several objects. The employee was hospitalized due to a fractured back and a left leg injury that required stitches.

United Airlines

An employee turned off a pushback tractor at a gate, put it in neutral, and put the emergency brakes up. The employee then exited the tractor and noticed it was rolling forward toward the aircraft. The right side of his body was wedged between the tractor and the aircraft nose. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs and a partially collapsed lung.

UNITED AIRLINES

An employee was reversing a tug into a baggage cart to connect it when the tug did not stop and struck them in the lower trunk area. The employee was hospitalized.

United Airlines

An employee was operating a tug and going around a parked cart when the tug struck the cart, catching their left foot between them. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left tibia and fibula.

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PA Army National Guard

An employee was ground handling a helicopter on the aircraft flight line. He was walking beside the helicopter when the helicopter wheel rolled over his left foot, ankle, and lower leg, causing compound fractures to his tibia and breaking bones in his foot. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

POI Aviation Incorporated

An employee was operating a tug that had been re-tagged due to faulty brakes. As the employee approached the designated parking area, he slowed the tug using the clutch and then exited the tug. He went to stop the tug from colliding with a concrete wall when his right ankle became caught between the tug and a parking stall barrier. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized.

American Airlines

An employee had just arrived to work and was driving a tug to the gatehouse. The tug ran over chocks while exiting the inbound area, causing the employee to fall to the ground. He was hospitalized with four fractured ribs.

Quantum Aviation Services LLC

An employee was unloading shipping containers from an aircraft when they suffered heat exhaustion and were hospitalized.

Ground Services International

An employee was manually pulling a container from the aft cargo hold of a wide-body jetliner. Their right little finger got pinned between the container and the edge of the cargo door. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Worldwide Flight Services

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.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.