# Amputations at Merrimack Building Supply, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010082` · 1/3/2018 · HOOKSETT, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Merrimack Building Supply, Inc.
- **Location:** Southern NH University, HOOKSETT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03106
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had approached a boom truck to speak with a co-worker when his hand entered the pinch point on the truck, amputating one entire finger and two fingertips.

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