Severe Workplace Injuries in Bremerton, Washington

Sep 25, 2025 · Navy NAVFAC-NW Hospitalized

An employee was performing restoration activities outside a 45-gallon condensation tank of a boiler system. As they were performing post-maintenance activities after repairing one of the two discharge pumps, one of the discharge valves would not open. The employee closed the intake pump to cool off the system and open the discharge valve. Two employees opened the inlet valve to return the tank to service. After they cracked open the inlet valve, a side wall of the tank blew out, causing the injured employee to suffer steam burns to half their body.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Multiple body parts · Administrative, staffing and waste services · OSHA inspection 1853042

May 13, 2025 · Dept. of Defense - USN Hospitalized

At 6:05 a.m. on May 13, 2025, an employee was descending a stairwell in a ship. The tool bag she was carrying on her shoulder caught on a handrail; she lost her footing and fell down the last 7 feet of the stairwell. She suffered internal injuries and was hospitalized.

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Part of body · Public administration

Dec 22, 2024 · Navy Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hospitalized

An employee was descending a ladder between the second and third deck on an aircraft carrier when they slipped and fell. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures to their ankle.

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Ankle(s) · Manufacturing

Nov 17, 2024 · U.S. NAVY PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD Hospitalized

An employee was assisting a crane that was lifting a crate containing a 550-pound electrical breaker. The crate slipped from the lifting apparatus and fell, catching the crane operator s sleeve and pinning his hand between the breaker and shipping crate. He was hospitalized with a crushing injury including a fracture, puncture, strain/sprain, bruise, laceration, and dislocation.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Hand(s), finger(s) · Public administration · OSHA inspection 1789484

Nov 22, 2023 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hospitalized

On 11/22/2023, at 8:35 AM, an employee was stepping onto a barge when they slipped on a wet surface and fell on their knee. The employee sustained a torn ligament in their knee requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Fall on water vehicle · Knee(s) · Manufacturing

Nov 6, 2023 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hospitalized

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.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Foot (feet) · Manufacturing

Jan 25, 2023 · Navy Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hospitalized

An employee was changing the lining of a trash can in the break room when they became tangled in a cord attached to the handle of a trash can. The employee tripped and fell to the floor, resulting in a hip fracture.

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Hip(s) · Manufacturing

Aug 17, 2022 · Delphinus Engineering, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee sustained an electrical shock while performing stick welding, resulting in an arrhythmia.

Direct exposure to electricity · Body systems · Manufacturing

Jul 6, 2022 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hospitalized

An employee was walking to the clinic when they tripped on a chain used to keep vehicles out of the ambulance loading dock. The employee hit their elbow on the sidewalk, sustaining an open fracture to the left humerus.

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Upper arm(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 25, 2022 · Craft and Technical Solutions, LLC Hospitalized

After serving on fire watch for a plasma cutting operation inside a tank, an employee developed difficulty breathing and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Body systems · Manufacturing

Feb 12, 2021 · Huntington Ingalls Industries Technical Solutions Division Hospitalized

An employee slipped on ice on a shipyard pier and fell, suffering a broken leg.

Fall on same level due to slipping · Leg(s) · Manufacturing

May 28, 2020 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility Amputation

At about 11:30 a.m. on May 28, 2020, an employee was clearing a clog from the classification system for a plastic media recovery system. When the clog cleared, the open adjustable rotor started to spin, causing amputations to the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers (with bone loss to the furthest knuckle on the middle finger).

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing

Apr 15, 2020 · Pacific Ship Repair and Fabrication Hospitalized

An employee was setting up for hot work on a scaffolding platform. He opened the swing gate at the platform entry and lost his grip on the ladder while transferring from the platform, falling approximately 5 feet onto the main deck of the ship. He was hospitalized with a compression fracture to the T2 vertebra.

Fall on water vehicle · Thoracic region · Manufacturing

Jan 17, 2020 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Hospitalized

An employee was walking toward a stack of wood to remove a tag for material tracking. He slipped on ice and fell, suffering broken ribs.

Fall on same level due to slipping · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Public administration

Nov 22, 2019 · General Dynamics Amputation

Onboard an aircraft carrier, a rigger helper was steadying a pipe in a compartment while pipefitters adjusted the pipe in another compartment. While adjusting the pipe, the light end of the pipe shifted upwards and the rigger helper s left little and ring fingers were caught between the pipe flange and the overhead. The tip of the pinky finger was crushed and the fingernail was removed, and the ring finger sustained a 2-3 laceration. The employee was hospitalized and the pinky finger was amputated to the base of the fingernail.

Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle · Fingertip(s) · Construction

Jul 17, 2019 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility Amputation

An employee was using a portable worm-drive circular saw to cut slots in 4X4 lumber for trailer stairs and cut their left middle finger resulting in a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 10, 2019 · PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD Hospitalized

An employee was working near a drive shaft on a naval vessel. He ducked under the propulsion shaft and his hard hat struck the shaft causing a broken vertebra in his neck. He was hospitalized.

Water vehicle incident (other) · Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Public administration

Mar 28, 2019 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility Amputation

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).

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Jul 28, 2018 · International Marine and Industrial Applicators, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was descending from one deck level to another in a ship. The employee slipped and fell about 4 feet to the bottom of the stairwell. The employee suffered a broken right tibia and fibula, as well as a small cut under the left eye and a contusion to the right lower back.

Fall on water vehicle · Lower leg(s) · Manufacturing

Jun 6, 2018 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Building 460 Amputation

Employees were moving a metal ring weighing 578 lbs. from a hydraulic lift table to a work bench when the metal ring fell onto one of the employee's left hand catching it between the ring and the work bench and amputating the ring and middle fingertips.

Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1322412

Jan 29, 2018 · Ballard Marine Construction, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was pressure washing at a location when the pressure washer injected the employee's right little finger.

Struck by discharged object or substance · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Construction

Nov 8, 2017 · PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD Hospitalized

An employee was walking when he tripped over the tines of a parked forklift and broke his right femur, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Thigh(s) · Public administration

Sep 22, 2017 · PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD Amputation

An employee was using a pocket knife to cut open a large sack when the sack slipped and the knife amputated his fingertip.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Fingertip(s) · Public administration

Jul 17, 2017 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Amputation

An employee was helping a coworker drill pilot holes through a wooden block. The coworker was operating the drill while the employee checked the hole alignment when the drill bit cut through the block and contacted the employee s right index finger, amputating it to the first knuckle.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing

Jun 3, 2017 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Amputation

An employee was working on the hull of a ship from scaffolding. When he was lowering himself down from the scaffolding, his ring was caught on the edge of a metal beam, which then amputated his finger.

Contact with objects and equipment (other) · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing

May 30, 2017 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Hospitalized

An employee was loading oak blocks (90 lbs.) onto a planer when a block shifted and fell on the employee's foot.

Struck by falling object or equipment · Foot (feet) · Manufacturing

Nov 30, 2016 · DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Hospitalized

An employee was descending the ladder of a flat bed truck and fell to the ground breaking a hip.

Other fall to lower level · Hip(s) · Public administration

Jul 7, 2016 · Chugach Hospitalized

While changing a street light, an employee contacted the electrical filament and suffered an electrical shock. He was knocked unconscious and required hospitalization.

Direct exposure to electricity · Body systems · Administrative, staffing and waste services · OSHA inspection 1162297

May 16, 2016 · Chugach Hospitalized

An employee was on an 8-foot tripod ladder, painting a wall with a hand brush. The employee slipped and fell, fracturing the left-side scapula and one rib.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts (other) · Administrative, staffing and waste services

May 4, 2015 · Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Amputation

An employee was training a junior employee. They were troubleshooting an electrical exhaust fan. The system was locked out at the time. The employee began manually rotating the pulley via the fan belt. As the employee pulled the belt, he drove his left hand between the belt he was pulling and the pulley. This crushed his left-hand ring fingertip, including the tip of the fourth distal. He sustained an amputation of the fourth distal, from the nailbed to the fingertip.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing