# Amputations at Electric Boat Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018076976` · 7/11/2018 · NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Electric Boat Corporation
- **Location:** 165 Dillabur Avenue, NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND, 02852
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to transfer a steel plate off a flatbed truck with an overhead crane. The rigging equipment was put under tension while the employee's left ring finger was between the shackle and the plate hook; the employee's fingertip was pinched and amputated.

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