A319 flight attendant reports that new jumpseats being installed in her company aircraft do not have...

Narrative:

I am very concerned to have discovered recently on multiple A319 aircraft with new slimline seating; that multiple jumpseats have been improperly installed at door 1L. Most recently on aircraft nose number X I found that both jumpseats [cushions] at 1L inboard and outboard were not fastened or bonded to the seat itself. Mechanics put 2 screws in each jumpseat to fasten the cushion to the seat but this still left extremely sharp edges around all sides of the seat which resulted in a minor cut to my finger but could do much worse if left unfixed. The jumpseats were properly fixed by bonding down all the edges at the next stop. I had 2 fears 1. This could potentially be extremely dangerous in an emergency or turbulence because one of our flight attendant brace positions is holding on to the jumpseat which could result in severe injury due to not being attached and/or sharp edges and 2) the fear that since both jumpseats on aircraft X were improperly installed that this issue could be more widespread than just this one aircraft. My second fear was realized when I showed up the next morning on aircraft nose number Y to find the exact same problem with jumpseat 1L inboard.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A319 Flight Attendant reports that new jumpseats being installed in her company aircraft do not have the cushions attached to the seat; exposing sharp edges that can cut fingers.

Narrative: I am very concerned to have discovered recently on multiple A319 aircraft with new slimline seating; that multiple jumpseats have been improperly installed at door 1L. Most recently on aircraft nose number X I found that both jumpseats [cushions] at 1L inboard and outboard were not fastened or bonded to the seat itself. Mechanics put 2 screws in each jumpseat to fasten the cushion to the seat but this still left extremely sharp edges around all sides of the seat which resulted in a minor cut to my finger but could do much worse if left unfixed. The jumpseats were properly fixed by bonding down all the edges at the next stop. I had 2 fears 1. This could potentially be extremely dangerous in an emergency or turbulence because one of our flight attendant brace positions is holding on to the jumpseat which could result in severe injury due to not being attached and/or sharp edges and 2) the fear that since both jumpseats on aircraft X were improperly installed that this issue could be more widespread than just this one aircraft. My second fear was realized when I showed up the next morning on aircraft nose number Y to find the exact same problem with jumpseat 1L inboard.

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Attributes
ACN	1191186
Time
Date	201407
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A319
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Component
Aircraft Component	Cabin Crew Seat
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

A319 flight attendant reports that new jumpseats being installed in her company aircraft do not have the cushions attached to the seat; exposing sharp edges that can cut fingers.