# Amputations at Big Lake Planting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020065788` · 6/22/2020 · BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Harvesting and threshing machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lake Planting, Inc.
- **Location:** 38290 Congleton, BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA, 33430
- **NAICS:** 115113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaning against a mule train going over a rough patch in a corn field. He was trying to adjust the wing to stabilize it when the wing moved and came down, crushing his finger. As a result, his left index fingertip was amputated.

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