# Amputations at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility
> OSHA SIR `2019033246` · 3/28/2019 · BREMERTON, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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).

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