United Airlines, Inc.

On 6/22/2025, an employee was working on the ramp at the airport and was loading bags. The employee was hospitalized with a heat-related illness.

An employee was downloading bags off an aircraft. Upon exiting the cargo compartment, and while climbing down the steps of the belt loader, the employee lost her footing, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to her wrist and hip.

An employee was driving a luggage tractor on the ramp area when the vehicle struck a dip in the ground that caused the wheels to come off the ground and bounce. The employee was hospitalized with a back injury.

An employee was conducting training at the end of the passenger loading bridge. She tripped over the carpet of the jetway while instructing the trainee on jetway operations and fell onto her right hip, resulting in a severe hip injury that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was moving a locker from the back of a pickup truck to another truck. The employee's feet became entangled with security straps, causing him to lose his balance and fall backward from the truck to the ground. The employee sustained a traumatic brain injury.

An employee sustained a hernia while carrying a 25-pound gas cylinder. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.

An employee was lifting a crate of dairy product and felt severe back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a burst blood vessel in their lower back.

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.

An employee was lifting a box of produce in the backroom area when she suffered pain in her lower back and was unable to stand, resulting in hospitalization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.