# Amputations at Irby Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2019089015` · 8/29/2019 · BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Irby Construction Company
- **Location:** Structure A82V1, BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA, 33430
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing an auger on a digger truck when two of his fingers were amputated.

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