CAPT RPT ON FAULTY GALLEY CART LOOSE ON TKOF AND HITTING A FLT ATTENDANT RESULTING IN INJURY.

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FOOD CART APPARENTLY CAME LOOSE AT SOME TIME DURING THE FLT. I PRESUME IT TO BE AFTER TKOF AND PASSING 10000 FT FROM THE RPT THE LEAD FLT ATTENDANT GAVE ME; AND STRUCK A FLT ATTENDANT. INCIDENT APPARENTLY DID NOT SEEM SIGNIFICANT SINCE I WAS NOT TOLD OF IT UNTIL AFTER THE FLT AT THE HOTEL IN EUROPE. FLT ATTENDANT DID NOT SEEM BADLY HURT BUT BY MORNING SHE COMPLAINED OF BEING UNABLE TO GET OUT OF BED. SHE SAID THE CART HAD STRUCK IN SUCH A WAY AS TO PIN HER INTO THE METAL WORK SURFACE (COUNTER TOP). I ASKED HER HOW IT GOT LOOSE AND SHE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT SECURED PROPERLY WHEN LOADED. SHE DIDN'T THINK THE BRAKE HAD BEEN SET EITHER. I HAVE SEEN CARTS WITH LATCHES THAT WERE NOT LONG ENOUGH TO PROPERLY SECURE CARTS WHEN IN CONTINUOUS TURB. NOT SURE IF THE PROB STEMS FROM THE WRONG LATCHES BEING POSITIONED WHERE THEY ARE NOT MEANT TO BE OR IF CARTS VARY IN HT. FLT ATTENDANT WANTED TO START HER DUTIES BUT AGREED TO NOTIFY ME IF SHE CONTINUED HAVING DISCOMFORT. ONCE INTO THE FLT IT BECAME APPARENT THAT SHE WAS HURTING CONSIDERABLY. A DOCTOR WAS CALLED WHO ADVISED SHE NOT CONTINUE. AS A PRECAUTION THE EMS WAS CALLED TO REMOVE HER FROM THE ACFT AND TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL. X-RAYS WERE TAKEN AND SHE WAS RELEASED THE SAME DAY. THIS WAS AT OUR DEST. INCIDENT DID NOT OCCUR IN TURB AND WE HAD MORE THAN THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF FLT ATTENDANTS ON BOARD TO CONTINUE WITHOUT THE FLT ATTENDANT WHO WAS HURTING. THE CART AND LATCHING SIT IS BEING LOOKED INTO I BELIEVE. FLT ATTENDANT HAD JUST RETURNED FROM A LEAVE DUE TO A PREVIOUS OJI THAT APPARENTLY AFFECTED THE SAME AREA OF HER BACK. I WILL USE THIS TO BRIEF FLT ATTENDANTS ON CART SECURITY BEFORE FLTS. THE BRIEFING LIST GETS LONGER EVERY MONTH!