# Fractures at AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC
> OSHA SIR `2019088269` · 8/12/2019 · MIAMI, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Airport utility vehicle-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC
- **Location:** Miami International Airport, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33122
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While working in the baggage area under a terminal, an employee was helping to guide a tractor in next to the baggage belt. As the tractor and first cart passed her and turned away from the baggage belt, the second container hit the back of the employee's right hand, which was on a bollard between the carts and the employee. The employee suffered a broken right hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*