OSHA Injury Report: ABE

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Preflight duties

What happened

The first 2 bins are easy to pull out the third bin however is farther back than my reach is able to reach. There is a pully system that brings the third bin forward without reaching. The pully system was broke. There was nothing to pull to bring the bin forward. I did a hard reach stretch to bring the bin forward and I overextended my shoulder to complete the preflight on the bins. I found out the broken pully system was already written up on the plane. Then continuing with my preflight I was pulling the top set of bins and the second bin is to be empty behind the first bin and when I pulled it overhead to check it it was heavy and I caught the bin with my left arm the bin had a combination of large trash bags toilet paper and Bank of America Credit Card applications within. Later in the flight I was restocking the service cart from the backstock cart and I went to pull the drawer of water bottles and the bottles got stuck to the metal shelf above within the cart and I was pulling wit

Injury or illness

Sprain Strain of shoulder

Object or substance involved

Heavy bin that is positioned to far to grab with proper posture requiring an overreach

Summary line

Over extended to pull a loaded bin filled with refreshments and pulled muscle in shoulder

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.