# Amputations at Interior Specialists,Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021475` · 2/14/2017 · TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Interior Specialists,Inc.
- **Location:** Jim Moran Institute, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, 32301
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker lower and position a steel beam onto a rolling cart when his right middle finger was caught between the steel beam and the rolling cart, amputating his fingertip at the nailbed.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*