KITTERY, MAINE · 2016-08-27
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard , Seavy Island, KITTERY, MAINE 03904
on 2016-08-27 , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final 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.
Hospitalized
Amputation
Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Tugboat, towboat
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Record
OSHA ID 2016088078
Date 2016-08-27
Location Seavy Island, KITTERY, MAINE 03904
NAICS 336611
Injury Amputations
Body part Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Event Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
Source Tugboat, towboat