Incident date: 2024-09-20
NAICS industry code: 481111

An employee was operating an aircraft push tractor in reverse to go from one gate to the next. While passing a parked belt loader vehicle, the push tractor and the operator's upper body made contact with the conveyor boom of the parked belt loader vehicle. The employee sustained rib fractures, a non-displaced T5 fracture, a right pneumothorax, a periaortic hematoma, and a sternum fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle
code_source: title: Airport utility vehicle  powered
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate