A maintenance golf car struck a B737-800 engine inlet after the mechanic dropped his cordless drill ...

Narrative:

I was working on the crew oxygen bottle servicing. My golf cart was parked just outside the forward cargo pit door facing aft and away from the plane. My cordless drill containment box was on top for my golf card. I came out of the forward cargo pit and was getting ready to head back to the shop for another crew oxygen bottle. I locked up my cordless box and removed it from the top of the golf cart. I tossed it on to the right seat; it hit the forward edge bounced off over my tool bag I had on the floor of the card and wedged itself between the electric gas pedal and the bag. Although the cart is equipped with a safety brake it is automatically released if you push the gas pedal. The cart lunged forward at full speed 8-14 feet and hit the lower outer surface of the number 2 engine inlet. I was on the outside of the cart and could not hold it back. I pushed the golf cart back saw the damage and called my lead and had him and my supervisor come out with the camera. We took pictures took the aircraft to the hangar removed the inlet performed condition inspection as instructed by mpm and changed out the engine inlet of the number 2 engine. The aircraft was flying the next morning. I am very sorry this happened!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A maintenance golf car struck a B737-800 engine inlet after the Mechanic dropped his cordless drill on the seat; it then bounced off only to be wedged on the gas pedal which started the engine and released the brake.

Narrative: I was working on the crew oxygen bottle servicing. My golf cart was parked just outside the forward cargo pit door facing aft and away from the plane. My cordless drill containment box was on top for my golf card. I came out of the forward cargo pit and was getting ready to head back to the shop for another crew oxygen bottle. I locked up my cordless box and removed it from the top of the golf cart. I tossed it on to the right seat; it hit the forward edge bounced off over my tool bag I had on the floor of the card and wedged itself between the electric gas pedal and the bag. Although the cart is equipped with a safety brake it is automatically released if you push the gas pedal. The cart lunged forward at full speed 8-14 feet and hit the lower outer surface of the Number 2 engine inlet. I was on the outside of the cart and could not hold it back. I pushed the golf cart back saw the damage and called my Lead and had him and my Supervisor come out with the camera. We took pictures took the aircraft to the hangar removed the inlet performed condition inspection as instructed by MPM and changed out the engine inlet of the Number 2 engine. The aircraft was flying the next morning. I am very sorry this happened!

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1082255
Time
Date	201304
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-800
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Person 1
Function	Technician
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A maintenance golf car struck a B737-800 engine inlet after the mechanic dropped his cordless drill on the seat; it then bounced off only to be wedged on the gas pedal which started the engine and released the brake.