# Cuts, lacerations at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility
> OSHA SIR `20231110239` · 11/6/2023 · BREMERTON, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Power washers
- **Secondary source:** Pressurized water-blast
## Employer
- **Name:** Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility
- **Location:** 1400 Farragut Avenue, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, 98314
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

On November 6, 2023, an employee was hydroblasting mold-in-place (MIP), a rubber hole coating, from the outer hole of a submarine when pressurized water lacerated the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized.

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