# Amputations at Oldcastle Lawn & Garden, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019021668` · 2/14/2019 · TYLERTOWN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Oldcastle Lawn & Garden, Inc.
- **Location:** 157 Hwy. 48 West, TYLERTOWN, MISSISSIPPI, 39667
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to adjust the belt tensioner on a screening machine when the wrench slipped off the bolt and his hand went into the belt and pulley resulting in amputation of the right pinky fingertip and a right forearm laceration.

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