# Amputations at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
> OSHA SIR `2016088078` · 8/27/2016 · KITTERY, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tugboat, towboat
## Employer
- **Name:** Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
- **Location:** Seavy Island, KITTERY, MAINE, 03904
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was installing line skirting. He placed his left hand in the hinge side of a watertight door when another employee inside the tug shut the door amputating approximately one inch of the employee's left middle finger.

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