Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing

NarrativeAt 12:45 p.m. on February 11, 2019, an employee was conducting the cleaning of milling machines (model number: AWEA FCV-620) with a coworker. As the employee opened the small gated doors and accessed the rear compartment of one of the milling machines, he was struck in the back of the head and killed. The incident investigation determined that the machines axis activated, moving its home position forward and drove the employee's head into the machine's frame. The employee suffered a fractured skull.

NarrativeAt 7:04 p.m. on November 3, 2017, an employees was removing chain slings from a load that had been placed into its frame support structure. The overhead gantry crane hoisted the hook and in turn the chain sling. During the hoisting the chain sling came into contact with the load now resting in the carriage. The load became dislodged, pinning the employee between the load and a steel table. The employee sustained internal bleeding and possible liver and kidney damage, and later died.

NarrativeAt 2:30 p.m. on January 20, 2017, an employee was setting up a milling operation on a 24-inch by 24-inch by 1-inch plate of aluminum on a 5-axis Viper CNC milling machine. The employee was positioning the tooling jig on the table and was in the process of placing the work piece onto the jig when he stood upright and got caught by the spindle of the head unit. The worker had not turned off the spindle and it was spinning while he was in the process of setting up for the next run. The employee suffered blunt force trauma on the back of his head near the occipital side of the brain and cervical vertebrae. The employee was killed.