Accident on tugboat in NY Harbor severs crew member's arm
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Police say a tugboat crew member is hospitalized after he lost part of an arm in an accident in New York Harbor.
New York City police tells the Daily News (http://nydn.us/2oxnUX5 ) that the 27-year-old man was working on the Mr. T near the Statue of Liberty around 9:20 p.m. Thursday when his left arm became caught in one of the vessel's ropes. The line cut through the man's arm below the elbow, sending the severed part into the water.
A boat from the NYPD's harbor unit responded, and officers applied a tourniquet to the man's arm. They took the man to Brooklyn, where medics rushed him to Lutheran Hospital. The man's name and condition haven't been released
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Authorities were searching for the severed part of the man's arm.
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Information from: Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com