OSHA: Safety Lapses of American Airlines Subsidiary Caused Fatality

A Maryland-based airline exposed workers to engine and jet blast hazards, which killed a ground crew member who was pulled into the spinning turbines of a jet engine in December 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Wednesday. Piedmont Airlines Inc., a subsidiary of American Airlines Group, was fined $15,625 for the incident that took place at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery, Alabama. Federal investigators determined that, as the wing walker on a ground crew placed cones around a small passenger plane, suction near one of the plane’s engin...