# Fractures at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
> OSHA SIR `2015129390` · 12/11/2015 · SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Self-inflicted injury-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
- **Location:** Pier J, Aboard CVN 70 Carl Vinson, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 92135
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

Two employees got into a verbal altercation.  One employee packed up his gear and was leaving the vessel. The employee punched a steel I-beam on his way out, fracturing his right hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*