Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Name: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD
Start: 7/16/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018077161 · 7/16/2018 · NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Cause

Event: Nonclassifiable
Source: Nonclassifiable

Employer

Name: NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD
Location: SSBN 742, PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 23709
NAICS: 336611
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

For three days, an employee's task had been to clean sea salt from an injection pump's inlet tube. The employee had trouble breathing, feeling a sharp pain in the shoulder and pressure in the chest, and was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown