WICHITA, KANSAS—
Textron Aviation Inc
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Textron Aviation Inc, 130 N Webb Rd, WICHITA, KANSAS 67206 on — Fractures , affecting the Upper and lower extremities n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was preparing the wing of an aircraft for stripping work and was standing on a four-foot step stand. As the employee was walking on the top platform of the stand, they stepped off the end of the stand and fell to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their left elbow and left hip.
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The employee was working at a sub-assembly jig that is 66 inches tall and 33 inches wide. The employee was getting up from performing a drilling operation on the underside of the jig. She grabbed onto the jig to assist herself in standing and the jig fell over onto her. The employee sustained subluxation and disruption of the spinolaminar ligament at C-7-T-1 and end plate compression fractures of T-7 through T-1.
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