# Amputations at Pacific Tank Cleaning Services Inc
> OSHA SIR `2015021311` · 2/10/2015 · SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner, ship, excluding sail-powered
- **Secondary source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** Pacific Tank Cleaning Services Inc
- **Location:** NB San Diego USS Harper Ferry, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 92170
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

The injured worker was leaving the engine room and going up the ship's ladder carrying a small Shop-Vac.  He was six to eight rungs above the deck when he fell (approximately 6 feet).  While falling, he caught his finger between the vacuum and some metal part of the ship. He sustained a right middle finger avulsion (amputation) injury from the first knuckle through the nail, as well as a right index finger 90% avulsion (amputation) injury (estimated first knuckle).

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