# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at United Airlines Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098809` · 9/20/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle
- **Source:** Airport utility vehicle  powered
- **Secondary source:** Airport utility vehicle  powered
## Employer
- **Name:** United Airlines Inc.
- **Location:** 3500 North Terminal Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77205
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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