Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Boeing Company, 8700 State Rte. 4, MASCOUTAH, ILLINOIS 62258
on — Fractures , affecting the Wrist(s).
Final narrative
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.
An employee was helping to move an aircraft into a hangar when his fingers were crushed between the hangar door handle and the hangar door, resulting in fractures and an amputation.
An employee was closing the rear door of a 22-ft. box truck when the truck began to drive away. The employee had one foot on the back of the truck and one foot on the dock; he fell from the dock to the pavement and sustained a head contusion.
An employee fell to the ground while pushing a stuck vehicle in a parking lot. The employee's ring finger went into the tire wheel and brake caliper, causing the amputation of the fingertip.
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 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.