How aviation injuries led to 8,670 lost work days across the military

Military Times: It was December 2012 when an Air Force maintainer in Qatar working on a KC-135R slipped on a cargo roller nearby, fell backwards, and received a back injury and a concussion that would keep him out of work for more than three months.

It was March 2011, an airman maintaining a T-38C at Randolph AFB lost six work days to an insect bite.

And on July 2015, a service member was sitting on a C-130H tire at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and somehow got stuck, leading to what the service delicately called “testicular trauma” that cost him three work days.

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