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Flight attendant reported severe turbulence and injury during climb out.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1604036 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201812 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZAU.ARTCC |
| State Reference | IL |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737-800 |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Flight Attendant (On Duty) |
| Qualification | Flight Attendant Current |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
Captain briefed crew that it was going to be choppy on climb out and would call us to let us know when it was okay to get up. After climb; captain called us to [inform] us of light chop but we can resume duties; but not take carts out. Flight attendant 2 started to open up the compartments in aft galley when we went through what flight attendant 2 and flight attendant 4 thought was severe turbulence. Flight attendant 2 was lifted into the air and fell into flight attendant 4 on the jump seat. Once it was moderately safe to move; flight attendant 2 moved into their jump seat. As flight attendant 2 was strapping in; there was another big pocket of turbulence and flight attendant 2 was swung out of seat and landed in the aisle between the two jump seats. Right arm was injured. Pain shooting down right arm with wrist and hand pain as well.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Flight Attendant reported severe turbulence and injury during climb out.
Narrative: Captain briefed crew that it was going to be choppy on climb out and would call us to let us know when it was okay to get up. After climb; Captain called us to [inform] us of light chop but we can resume duties; but not take carts out. Flight Attendant 2 started to open up the compartments in aft galley when we went through what Flight Attendant 2 and Flight Attendant 4 thought was severe turbulence. Flight Attendant 2 was lifted into the air and fell into Flight Attendant 4 on the jump seat. Once it was moderately safe to move; Flight Attendant 2 moved into their jump seat. As Flight Attendant 2 was strapping in; there was another big pocket of turbulence and Flight Attendant 2 was swung out of seat and landed in the aisle between the two jump seats. Right arm was injured. Pain shooting down right arm with wrist and hand pain as well.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.