# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at United Airlines
> OSHA SIR `2025054888` · 5/23/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Airport utility vehicle  powered
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle or mobile equipment failure
## Employer
- **Name:** United Airlines
- **Location:** IAH - George Bush Intercontinental Airport, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77032
- **NAICS:** 488111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee turned off a pushback tractor at a gate, put it in neutral, and put the emergency brakes up. The employee then exited the tractor and noticed it was rolling forward toward the aircraft. The right side of his body was wedged between the tractor and the aircraft nose. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs and a partially collapsed lung.

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