The unnamed airport employee died after they were "ingested" into an engine, transport officials said.

On Wednesday, regional airline Piedmont was fined $15,625 (£12,285) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the death of a ground crew worker six-months earlier in a similar incident in Alabama.

  • Azure@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    On Wednesday, regional airline Piedmont was fined $15,625 (£12,285) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the death of a ground crew worker six-months earlier in a similar incident in Alabama.

    So im confused. Not the same airlines nor airport between the deaths, but the accidents are so rare they mentioned both? yet delta says it is unrelated to safety procedures, but again this happens rarely enough to bring up it happened twice recently?

    Are people overworked and falling asleep? Last i heard they’re understaffed anyway?

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Are people overworked and falling asleep? Last i heard they’re understaffed anyway?

      airline workers generally have it extremely poor, as i understand. a big group of them recently unionized in Charlotte, NC and they were getting paid as low as $12/hr for workweeks that could be 60 hours or more in length

    • wjs018@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Posted this below, but the fine is from an unrelated, earlier incident in Alabama. From what I found on jalopnik:

      Earlier this year, a worker was killed by being sucked into an airplane engine in Alabama on New Year’s Eve. The employee in that scenario was warned several times that the plane’s engines would be on, however. Still, OSHA hit the small airline Piedmont with a fine of $15,625 in the workers death.

      This incident with Delta that happened in Texas is under investigation. I would be surprised if no safety procedures were violated in this incident. Well-written safety procedures that are followed should make this almost impossible to happen.

      • Azure@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Officials have not yet named the employee of Unifi Aviation, which Delta Air Lines contracts for ground crew operations,

        “From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi’s operational processes, safety procedures and policies,” the company said.

        From the posted article, they already claim no safety issue, but unknown cause.