# Multiple surface and flesh wounds at DuPage Airport Authority
> OSHA SIR `20241211742` · 12/19/2024 · WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface and flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle
- **Source:** Golf cart, personnel transport cart
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** DuPage Airport Authority
- **Location:** 2700 International Drive, WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60185
- **NAICS:** 488119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee used a golf cart to take a catering order out to an airplane crew. He then drove around the aircraft to speak with a line service technician about completing a jet fuel order. The injured employee then reboarded the golf cart and proceeded forward. The golf cart struck a parked aircraft near the wingtip. The employee sustained broken teeth and a full-thickness facial laceration from the lower lip down to the bottom of their chin. This incident occurred in snowy conditions.

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