Incident date: 2024-05-04
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee was helping to manually move two helicopters that were being shipped as cargo. Once the helicopters arrived at the staging area, the load team started the process of lowering the helicopters landing skids to the ground by disengaging the ground handling wheels. The injured employee removed a safety pin to disengage the wheels when the wheel rotation bar slipped from another employee's hand and struck him in the head, partially severing his left ear. He then fell back, striking his head. He was hospitalized with a skull fracture and a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate