OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14396931
AIRCRAFT,CLEARANCE,WORK RULES,SKULL,AIRCRAFT PROPELLER,STRUCK BY,UNTRAINED,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by airplane propeller
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was involved in an aircraft training exercise. His supervisor, the p ilot of the aircraft, requested that he and a coworker remove the chocks from th e aircraft wheels. Employee #1 removed the chocks from under the left wing and t he coworker removed the chocks from under the right wing. As Employee #1 went fo rward to remove the chocks from under the nose wheel of the aircraft, he attempt ed to walk between the propeller on the pilot's side and the main body of the ai rcraft. Employee #1 was killed when the turning propeller struck the left side o f his skull and upper body.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 1
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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