Yeah, I didn't believe the stories of being sucked into jet engines until I saw a training video ~ it looked like he'd be killed but apparently wasn't hurt much, just badly bruised .
I was working the Christmas shift A L.A.X. in......1985 (? IIRC) and some idiot had parked his 747 backed up to the maintenance fence and didn't want to wait for a tug (pilots are no allowed to taxi in these areas due to ground personel) , I'd been called out to re light the pilot of the out side steam cleaning machine and just as I walked up the idiot began firing up the engines ~ wow that was a hard wind blast ~ I ran behind a building to avoid beng blow away but stuck around just to see how windy it would get ~
It got bad, I felt sand blasted and I never did get the steam cleaner lit that day .
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Airport work is dangerous...supposedly OSHA used to rank us near coal mining for safety or lack of, not sure how that holds up recently.
I think I've seen that same video, the difference was with that kind of engine the first element is a stator, someone sucked in jams up in there and can get crushed, break ribs, etc but they don't contact the rotating parts if they are lucky.
On a modern high bypass jet engine the first thing anything that gets sucked up is going to hit is the fan... trust me I wouldn't be standing ANYWHERE near in front of this 787 engine if it was running, for scale that's a 10 foot fan in a 13 foot diameter engine, the best way to appreciate the size is stand inside the inlet and try to reach the top.. I have that picture someplace.
Getting ingested in a fan engine is fatal, I have never seen one personally but I have seen some awful pictures of such an event, it might as well be falling into a meat grinder or wood chipper, the effect is the same. The scary part is that you can be alongside the engine and still get sucked around the side and forward into the fan, that's an especially large risk on the smaller 737 due to the configuration of the engines and their positions. We have had a number of other fatalities over the years, people get crushed, run over, fall off things, burned, blown up, overcome by fumes, and I know of 2 fatal propeller accidents at Newark over the years, those are ugly too. Numerous limbs lost, head injuries, fingers, toes (my dad lost his thumb at JFK airport when I was a kid) , plus all the usual industrial accidents that happen in any heavy industry , electrical accidents, falls from height, confined space accidents, etc.
The jet blast from a large airliner is impressive when trying to get it moving from standstill, it takes quite a bit of thrust to overcome the weight and the rolling resistance of the tires. This Youtube clip is from an old United Airlines training video that I had to watch yearly... Yes the truck had the engine removed so they didn't dump oil the bay, but it makes no difference to the result, trust me.