Seattle, WA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Seattle Maintenance Alaska
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Seattle Maintenance Alaska in Alaska Service Road Sea Tac Int'l Airport, Seattle, WA 98158 resulted in days away from work. Employee was line Aircraft Technician in scheduled air passenger transportation.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Seattle Maintenance Alaska
- Parent company
- Alaska Airlines
- Street
- Alaska Service Road Sea Tac Int'l Airport
- City
- Seattle
- State
- WA
- ZIP
- 98158
- On-site location
- Aircraft: External
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
Before the incident
Verifying proper operation of aircraft lav Dump
What happened
Tech was called out for consult as Ground Service was having trouble dumping the aircraft lav. Tech had a bucket up for precautionary and when he opened the flapper valve a small amount of lav waste hit the bucket and splashed out onto his face and upper body. The valve operated normal and no writeup necessary. The Tech verbally told the supervisor that he got splashed by some of the lav waste but the aircraft operated normally. The technician cleaned himself up and continued working for the rest of the day without incident. Tech went on his two day weekend and returned to work for 2 days. On [REDACTED] [REDACTED] days after being splashed he went to the Urgent Care and discovered he had Pink Eye. The doctor asked him a series of questions and told him he was not to return to work until [REDACTED]. The doctor told the tech that the lav spill could have been a contributing factor in his catching Pink Eye.
Injury or illness
Foreign body
Object or substance involved
Lav Dump
Summary line
Foreign body in eye
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Line Aircraft Technician
- SOC code
- 49-3011: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- NAICS code
- 481111: Scheduled air passenger transportation
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 640
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 977,979
- Establishment ID
- 1011165
- Employer case #
- 1485
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 05:00
- Time of incident
- 10:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-23
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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, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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