Gulfstream Aerospace: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Apr 7, 2020: Employee amputates finger between two rolling platforms

At 3:15 p.m. on April 7, 2020, an employee, a preparation technician, and three coworkers were retrieving a rolling platform from the salvage yard where they were stored and rolling it into the preparation hangar. The rolling platforms were stored in close proximity to each other. The employees chose a platform and with each employee located at each corner of the platform they began to roll the platform away from the others. The employee was positioned on the left rear corner of the platform with his hand wrapped around the outer frame. As the platform moved forward, it's left outer frame came in contact with the pointed extended corner of a platform located to the moving platform's left , catching the employee's left middle finger between the corner of the stationary platform and the moving platform. Upon having his finger caught the employee yelled out and pulled out his finger. A coworker notified the company's nurse who dressed the wound then drove the employee to a local medical Center. The employee's wound was redressed and he was given pain medication. On April 8, 2020, the employee returned to the medical center, where it was determined that the tip of the finger could not be saved and the hospital performed surgery to amputate the tip of the left middle finger.

Incident on Aug 9, 2012: Employee suffers injury in airplane hanger accident

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on the August 9, 2012 Employee #1 was given a work or der to repair a leaking nose landing gear retractor hydraulic line on a small je t aircraft. The leaking hydraulic line was located to the rear of the aircraft's nose landing gear wheel well, so to access the leaking hydraulic line. Employee #1 removed the left and right forward pins from the aircraft's nose landing gea r. As Employee #1 removed the forward pins of the truss brace, the unsupported f orward weight of the aircraft forced the aircraft's nose landing gear to retract , causing the nose of the aircraft to fall to the floor of the hanger. As the no se of the aircraft fell to the floor, Employee #1 attempted to get out from unde rneath the aircraft, however the nose of the plane struck Employee #1, driving h im to the floor and landing on top of him. Many coworkers throughout the hanger came to the aircraft to render assistance, and they lifted the nose of the aircr aft, and removed Employee #1 from underneath. Local Fire and Police were notifie d of the accident and arrived to the site of the accident. Employee #1 was taken to a local area hospital for multiple fractures and released several days later .

Incident on Mar 23, 2009: Employee is pinned between fixture, fractures rib and spleen

At 12:20 p.m. on March 23, 2009, Employee #1, a Ground Support Technician of Gul fstream Aerospace Corporation, was performing preventative maintenance on the Th rust Reverser Transportation Fixture. He pushed the upper carriage to obtain the clearance needed to access the Pin hole, which was to be cleaned free of rust. Once the carriage started moving, it came to rest in the horizontal position and pinned Employee #1 between the upper and lower rest stops. Employee #1 suffered broken ribs, a broken sternum, a ruptured spleen, a punctured lung and internal bleeding. Employee #1 was transported to the Long Beach Memorial Hospital by th e paramedics. Employee #1 was in hospital for about a month and was in therapy f or about three months. Employee #1 returned to work in the last part of June, 20 09.