Accident: 14292874 - Killed When Towmotor Strikes Metal Baggage Door

At approximately 12:15 p.m. on January 7, 1999, Employee #1, of United Airlines, was transporting bags of luggage into the Terminal C baggage tunnel at Reagan/Washington National Airport. He was operating a battery-powered towmotor with two loaded baggage carts attached at the rear. He was in the cab of the towmotor and entering the baggage tunnel when he apparently struck the metal bi-fold megadoor where it was only partially elevated. Employee #1 was found by two of his coworkers after they heard a loud noise at the tunnel entrance. He sustained massive injuries to his head and neck, and was killed. The bi-fold megadoor leading to the baggage tunnel was controlled by an electrical sensor embedded in the inclined concrete pavement driveway leading to the doorway entrance. When the sensor was engaged by various airport terminal equipment, the door started an upward cycle at a moderate speed, with a 20-second delay at the top prior to starting down again. The damage sustained to the towmotor's steering column suggest that Employee #1 tried to duck when he entered the doorway.

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Accident: 125892513 - Fractures Collarbone In Fall From Hangar Roof

At approximately 7:39 a.m. on August 7, 1998, Employee #1 was reroofing an aircraft hangar at the Chino (CA) Airport when he fell 19 ft 9 in. He suffered a fractured clavicle and lacerated right forearm. Employee #1 was transported by helicopter to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he was hospitalized.

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Accident: 170017404 - Killed When Run Over By Aircraft

At approximately 6:40 p.m. on March 27, 1997, Employee #1, a wingwalker/dispatching agent, was helping to push back an aircraft. As the push back began, the tug driver was in communication with the plane's flight crew. The aircraft first had to be pulled forward to line up on the taxi way. While it was being moved forward, the headset cord used to communicate with the flight crew accidentally disconnected from the aircraft. Employee #1 walked in front of the plane's nose gear to retrieve the headset cord and was run over by the moving aircraft. He was killed.

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Accident: 170899991 - Leg Fractured When Caught Between Tug And Dolly

At 1:30 a.m. on March 8, 1997, Employee #1, of Northwest Airlines, was picking up the dollies from the bone yard at the airline's ramp at LAX. He left his #T-27 tug idling in neutral, with the safety brake in place, while he tried to hook up a string of dollies. Employee #1 was between the tug and the string of dollies, and was lifting the pin to hook up the tong of the dolly to the hook of the tug when the tug jumped gears from neutral into reverse. His lower left leg became pinned between the tug wheel and dolly #346, fracturing both the tibia and the fibula.

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Accident: 567826 - Truck Driver Killed When Struck By Aircraft Wing

Employee #1, a dump truck driver, was crossing an active runway at the municipal airport in West Helena, AR, when the dump truck was struck by the left wing of a crop duster aircraft that was taking off. Employee #1 was killed. The small municipal airport is used 90 percent of the time by farmers to land and take off with their crop duster planes. The portion of the runway that Employee #1 was crossing with his dump truck was not equipped with stop lights or other warning devices to alert runway crossers of oncoming aircraft.

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Accident: 170378541 - Foot Injured When Run Over By Mail Dolly

At 6:00 a.m. on April 23, 1996, Employee #1 and coworkers at the San Francisco International Airport Post Office were loading parcels onto dollies to be towed to the airport for shipment. As the line of dollies moved off, Employee #1 ran forward to retrieve a chock lying in the road. He was in an area of the traffic island in which he had been working and in which the wheels of the dollies often strayed. His foot was run over by a dolly, causing serious injuries to his toes and foot.

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Accident: 515734 - Dies After Fall Through Unsecured Metal Decking

At approximately 8:00 a.m. on March 28, 1995, Employee #1 was walking to a roof edge to weld a bent plate at an airport expansion project. Unsecured decking came off the support members on the roof overhang, causing Employee #1 to fall 51 ft to the compacted soil. He died several hours later of internal bleeding and asphyxia.

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