# Amputations at Storm Smart
> OSHA SIR `2023087869` · 8/25/2023 · CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Windows, openings
## Employer
- **Name:** Storm Smart
- **Location:** 2806 Embers Parkway, CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA, 33993
- **NAICS:** 624190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were working on scaffolding to remove a window that was open with the sash up. While maneuvering the window, the sash fell backward, rotated, and closed on the injured employee's hand. His right index fingertip was pinched and amputated by the sash and sill of the window.

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