Aircraft Manufacturing

Industry Summary

As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 232,642 workers employed at 746 Aircraft Manufacturing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 1,023 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 312 workers. Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (0% more) the average for the Industry.

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OSHA investigators arrived in Huntington Beach, CA on Tuesday, October 24th 2017 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at Boeing Company which had occured on Monday, October 23rd 2017. A 54 year old Fire inspection had been injured when the employee losed consciousness and was hospitalized

OSHA ID102305.015

Accident Date2017-10-23

Accident DegreeHospitalized injury

NarrativeAt 4:00 p.m. on October 23, 2017, an employee was mopping the floor inside a fire house when he went to the break room to eat and lost consciousness when he sat down. The employee was taken to the Los Alamitos Medical Center and was treated for non-heat related medical issues. The employee was hospitalized.

On Thursday, November 30th 2017 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Mojave, CA at Scaled Composites Llc. A 58 year old Fabricating machine operator had been injured when the employee was pinned by metal pulled from the milling machine

OSHA ID101115.015

Accident Date2017-10-18

Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury

NarrativeAt 11:15 a.m. on October 18, 2017 , an employee was drilling a hole into a piece of metal using a milling machine. The employee had his hand pinned against the vice when the drill bit caught on the metal and pulled it from the clamp. The employee had his middle and ring fingers degloved initially but required amputation at a later date. Hospitalization was not required.

On Monday, September 18th 2017 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Chicago, IL after learning of an incident at Wa317946568 - Boeing Company The which had occured on Wednesday, August 30th 2017. A 60 year old man working as a employee was killed on the job when the employee experiences coughing attack, falls, and later dies

OSHA ID103319.015

Accident Date2017-08-30

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt August 30, 2017, an employee, a machine repair technician, experienced a coughing attack during a meeting at work. He stood up from a chair and then fell, hitting his head. The company's fire department responded and he was taken to Highline Hospital for surgery to relieve a subdural hematoma. He died at on September 3, 2017. There were no exposures to airborne contaminants and coworkers are not sure what would have triggered cough.

Aircraft Manufacturing

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