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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

THE BOEING COMPANY

Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at THE BOEING COMPANY, K6-0894 Tow Way Road, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA 32899 on — Fractures , affecting the Multiple exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the chest.

An employee was walking in the breezeway outside the orbital processing facility when a vent hood on two wooden supports tipped over onto them. The employee was trapped underneath the vent hood, resulting in hospitalization for fractures to their rib and sternum.

Hospitalized Multiple exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the chest Ducts any material

The Boeing Company

Two employees fell from an access bridge while entering an aircraft to perform maintenance. They landed on the ground about 20 feet below, where one of them lost consciousness. One employee sustained a fractured knee and another employee sustained a back strain/sprain. Both employees were hospitalized.

The Boeing Company

An employee was cleaning up a fuel barn. They were winding up a power cord when they tripped on the cord and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured left wrist that required hospitalization and surgery.

The Boeing Company

In the flight line area, an employee was on a work stand platform conducting repairs to an aircraft. While transitioning to another location, he stepped over another employee and lost his balance. The employee reached for the railing to catch themselves, fell, and tore his right bicep. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

The Boeing Company

Employees were working on a machine overhaul. They were using a hydraulic jack to move the machine laterally into position. The machine shifted and pinched an employee's hand against the concrete floor. A fingertip was amputated.

The Boeing Company

Two employees were performing preventative maintenance on an exhaust fan. The injured employee was in a one-person lift replacing bolts when the belt on the exhaust fan moved. The employee's finger was caught in the belt, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Red Dot Corporation

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

RJV Construction

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

Textron Aviation Inc. (Orlando Service Center)

A pressurized aircraft nose landing gear strut assembly was being disassembled. The gland nut dislodged under pressure and made contact with an employee's left hand, breaking it.

Spirit Aerosystems, Inc

A metal tooling base was being moved by a forklift when the load shifted. An employee who was assisting went to stabilize the load and prevent it from sliding off the forks. The C-channel of the base crushed the employee's left hand against the concrete ground, resulting in the amputation of their third and fourth fingers.

Spirit Aerosystems Inc.

An employee was working on a tool platform (47.5" tall) and was transitioning around to the other side when they lost balance and fell to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to seven ribs and their elbow.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

An employee was adjusting the task lighting on a band saw when their right little finger made contact with the blade, resulting in amputation.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

On August 19, 2025, at 6:30 a.m., an employee sat in the rear bench seat of a golf cart ahead of being driven to a parking lot. When the golf cart began to move, he fell off the cart and onto the ground, resulting in a fractured right hip.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.