# Amputations at Nursery Supplies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098951` · 9/19/2017 · KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nursery Supplies, Inc.
- **Location:** 2050 Avenue A, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, 34758
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to adjust a pot on a blow mold machine when the employee's right hand slipped and was caught in the mold. As the employee pulled the hand out, the mold amputated the pinky fingertip.

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