# Amputations at Brightview Landscape Services
> OSHA SIR `2018088081` · 8/7/2018 · LUTZ, FLORIDA
## 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:** Lawn mowers-nonriding, powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Brightview Landscape Services
- **Location:** 14401 Waterchase Blvd., LUTZ, FLORIDA, 33559
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was activating a walk-behind lawnmower when his left ring finger was caught in the brake assembly, resulting in a finger amputation.

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