Global Courant 2023-04-21 16:19:33
An American Airlines employee died Thursday after being injured at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, airport officials said.
The worker was injured in the area where planes come into the terminal, a spokesman for the Austin, Texas airport said.
Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said it was called shortly after 2 p.m. and one person had died from “traumatic injuries.”
A spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department told reporters the man was driving a service vehicle that hit a jet bridge. She said police are investigating the incident as an accident.
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“We are devastated by the accident involving a team member at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport,” an American Airlines spokeswoman said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and our local team members.”
A passenger waits at a terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on April 13, 2023. A United Airlines employee died following an injury at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on April 20, 2023. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
American declined to comment further. The employee’s name was not immediately available.
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Work around commercial aircraft has led to other fatal injuries in recent years. A man died at the Austin airport in 2020 after being struck on a runway by a Southwest Airlines jet. Police later ruled it a suicide and officials said the man was not authorized to be on the runway.
In December, a baggage handler for US subsidiary Piedmont Airlines died in Montgomery, Alabama when she walked in front of a spinning jet engine and was pulled into the fan blades.
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In September, a contractor employee unloading bags from a Frontier Airlines plane at the New Orleans airport died after her hair got caught in a conveyor belt.
In 2019, an employee of a United Airlines contractor at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport became trapped under a vehicle loading luggage. He later died in a hospital.
