# Amputations at South Shore Gunite Pools
> OSHA SIR `2021010609` · 1/22/2021 · N BILLERICA, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Pumps
## Employer
- **Name:** South Shore Gunite Pools
- **Location:** 12 Esquire Road, N BILLERICA, MASSACHUSETTS, 01862
- **NAICS:** 561790
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a pump when their finger got caught between a mechanism and its housing, resulting in a fingernail loss and a fingertip amputation.

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