A tugboat worker lost part of his arm when it became caught in the boat’s ropes near the Statue of Liberty Thursday night, police said.
The 27-year-old man, whose identity has not been released, was on the “Mr. T,” which was helping a barge about a half-mile south of the Statue at about 9:20 p.m., officials said.
One of the tugboat’s lines caught the man’s left arm, slicing it clean below the elbow and sending it plummeting into the water, cops said.
Police believe the worker may have been adjusting the line, but didn’t tell the captain first, when the boat moved.
Three officers from the NYPD’s Harbor Charlie Unit, Paul Hessian, Jeff Meagher and John Kane, rushed to meet the tug, while an NYPD helicopter hovered overhead.
Their boat pulled up alongside the vessel, and Hessian used his “belt trauma kit” — which holds a tourniquet, gauze and a compression bandage — to tie off the staunch the bleeding, police said.
The officers took the man to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, where a tactical medic from the helicopter met them.
FDNY medics rushed the man to Lutheran Hospital, cops said.
Authorities are still searching for the man’s arm.
