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Roberto Becelli1, Roberto Morello, Giancarlo Renzi
1Sant'Andrea Hospital II, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Injuries in civil aviation can occur as a consequence of work-related accidents happening in airport. The ground crew can sustain slips, trips, falls, and machinery accidents. Most such accidents are observed when aircraft is departing. This clinical report describes a case of an airport ground assistant severely injured by a helicopter after the strike with a main rotor blade that was slowing after that the craft was landed and the engine was stopped, and reports surgical emergency treatment of life-threatening facial lesions.
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