# Amputations at Big Dunnrite Roofing, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2016032134` · 3/10/2016 · OCALA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Generators
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Dunnrite Roofing, LLC.
- **Location:** 5065 SE 26th Street, OCALA, FLORIDA, 34471
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping his foreman crank an electrical generator. The generator's pull starter started whipping around and broke off from the motor's plastic cover. As he tried to turn off the kill switch, the pull starter wrapped around his left thumb and amputated it. He was wearing leather gloves at the time of the incident.

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