105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO, 2798 E. HARBOR DR., SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92113 on — Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels , affecting the Other digestive structures n.e.c..

An employee was conducting cathodic protection anode work in a tank onboard a vessel. The employee fell approximately 5-8 feet from the bulkhead of the ship and struck the left side of their ribs. The employee sustained a ruptured spleen.

Hospitalized Other digestive structures n.e.c. Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner

General Dynamics NASSCO

An employee was tasked with pulling an 8.2-millimeter cable from overhead while on a ship. They were using a 6-foot, leaning step ladder in the A-frame position and standing on the second rung from the top. As they were reaching for the cable, the ladder tipped forward, causing them to lose balance and fall to the ground. The employee's right ankle was caught in the ladder rung when they lost balance, resulting in a fractured ankle.

General Dynamics NASSCO

An employee was working on the bottom of a littoral combat ship with a water jet propulsion system instead of a rudder. The employee was hammering a pin out of one of the cylinders of the propulsion system when the pin came out and the cylinder retracted. The employee's left middle finger was pinched by the cylinder, resulting in the partial amputation.

GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO

An employee was opening a pressurized fuel cargo tank lid when the lid flew off and contacted their left hand. The employee suffered a laceration on the middle finger, as well as an avulsion of the index finger that resulted in a surgical amputation of the fingertip.

GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO

An employee was performing continuity testing on a circuit breaker. An alligator clip touched energized parts of the circuit breaker, causing an arc flash. The employee suffered second- and third-degree burns.

GENERAL DYNAMICS/NASSCO

An employee was helping a coworker re-energize a fire pump. There was a very loud bang, and the employee was struck in the middle of his back by an electric charge from the casualty power biscuit for the fire pump, which was behind him. A hole was burned through his shirt and there was a 2.5- to 3-inch circular black mark on his bare skin.

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Amdrill, Inc.

An employee was preparing a barge for the end of a day's drilling operations. He was setting a spud on the barge when the spud struck him and broke his right leg.

BRINY BREEZES

A team of employees was moving boats from one slip in a marina to another using rope. An employee slipped while moving around in a boat and suffered a broken left femur.

AHTNA Marine & Construction

The injured employee was standing by the controls for the electric spud system on the barge, preparing to raise the spuds. Meanwhile, an excavator was moving a mat on the deck. As the excavator swung from port to starboard, it's counterweight struck the injured employee s shoulder, causing them to lose balance and fall against the spud controls. The employee sustained bruises and contusions to their right shoulder and chest.

MASSMAN CONSTRUCTION CO.

An employee was inserting dogbone links (4 feet 9 inches in length) into the slots between sectional barges to connect the barges. A dogbone link became stuck in the slot and needed to slide down approximately 1 foot to be seated. The employee went to lift the dogbone link up and adjust it when the link became free. A burr on the flange of the link snagged the employee's right glove. The link slid into a seated position and the employee's right middle finger was caught between the top surface of the barge and the top flange of the dogbone link. The finger was partially amputated at the midsection of the distal phalanx.

Gloucester Terminals LLC

An employee was working to unload cargo from a ship. A steel coil contacted the employee's left leg. The lower leg was fractured.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Electric Boat Corporation

An employee was struck by a plasma cutter and suffered a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc

An employee was preparing to bend a flat bar in a brake press. When the machine was jogged, the stock rotated up and crushed his left middle fingertip against the outer frame of the die. The fingertip was amputated.

All Star Metals, LLC

An employee was cutting metal with a torch. A piece of metal struck the employee's left foot, causing multiple fractures to metatarsal(s). The employee was hospitalized.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc

An employee was descending a ladder carrying a bag of trash. He fell, landed on the ground about 10 feet below, and suffered fractures to his right hip and pelvis.

Department of Justice - USMS

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

M1 Support Services

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

Dept. of Defense - USN

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

Sycuan Casino Resort

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.