# Amputations at NSquare Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181011051` · 10/26/2018 · LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** NSquare Inc.
- **Location:** Unknown, LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, 34228
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting steel tube sections for the installation of helical piles. He was checking the alignment of two tube sections when one of the sections was turned in an effort to align it, and his left index finger was caught in in a bolt hole amputating the fingertip.

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