Amputations

Name: Amputations at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Start: 3/28/2019

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2019033246 · 3/28/2019 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Location: 1400 Farragut Ave, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, 98314
NAICS: 336611
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

Employees were at a drydock, lifting a section of fin tube onto a foot pad. An employee's gloved hand was caught between two fin tubes. The employee was hospitalized; one of the employee's fingertips was amputated (with no bone loss).

Source

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