Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-10 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
While sandblasting, an employee lost his grip on the sand blasting nozzle. The nozzle recoiled back at the employee's leg and blast grit embedded into the skin on his leg. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-01-08 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding |
An employee suffered from dizziness, head pressure, fatigue, soreness, and chest pains while conducting abrasive blasting operations. | |||||
2019-04-15 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
An employee was conducting abrasive blasting inside a tank in a submarine. Blast media from the nozzle struck his chest and was embedded in the skin. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-05-09 | Kittery | Maine | Cianbro | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to dislodge a stuck pin in a sheet shackle when the pin engaged after being struck and caught the employee's fingertip, resulting in a fingertip amputation (no bone loss). | |||||
2018-01-10 | Kittery | Maine | Huntington Ingalls Industries Technical Solutions Division | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking from one maintenance trailer to another when the employee slipped on ice and hit the ground, suffering a concussion. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-07-22 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Foot (feet) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was conducting ultra high-pressure water jet cutting when his knee buckled and he lost his balance. As he was attempting to regain his balance, the cutting wand moved over his left foot and punctured a hole through it. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-13 | Kittery | Maine | Cianbro | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was using a 3-foot pry bar to lift a 3/8-inch piece of sheet of metal to remove the 3/4-inch wooden support blocks from underneath. The 3-foot pry bar slipped while the employee was removing the 3/4-inch wooden block, allowing the sheet metal to drop onto and amputate the employee's left index fingertip. | |||||
2017-03-22 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Public Works | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking across the parking lot when he slipped and fell on a patch of ice, breaking his left hip. | |||||
2017-02-17 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee fell after slipping on snow and ice in the parking lot, breaking his left femur. | |||||
2017-02-09 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While walking into work an employee slipped on ice and fell, breaking a bone in her leg. | |||||
2016-09-06 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was manually assembling a steel-framed structure that would eventually be used as a mock-up for training riggers when his left middle finger was caught between a steel I-beam and a metal plate, severing the top half-inch of the finger. | |||||
2016-08-29 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Wrist(s) | Fall from pedal cycle |
An employee fell off her bicycle while commuting to work on shipyard property. The employee fractured the left wrist and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2016-08-27 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. |
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. | |||||
2016-08-20 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was positioning a heavy steel "dog bone" on a flat surface when the steel crushed and amputated his right little fingertip. | |||||
2016-06-19 | Kittery | Maine | Carl's Meat Market | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee's thumb contacted a tomato-slicer blade, amputating a quarter-inch of the thumb tip. | |||||
2016-03-28 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to remove the lock actuating pin and the lock bar shifted severing his left index fingertip. | |||||
2015-10-28 | Kittery | Maine | Mainetrack Maintenance, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was installing railroad track when a rail rolled off the jack and pinched a finger resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2015-06-25 | Kittery | Maine | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Hip(s) | Struck bump, hole, or rough terrain in road surface |
On 6/25/15, at 10:30 a.m., an employee was riding her personal Segway on a street at the Navy base. While between buildings, she hit a dip or pothole in the roadway and lost control of her vehicle. She crashed her vehicle and was hospitalized overnight for a hip area fracture. |