# Amputations at Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
> OSHA SIR `2020087472` · 8/7/2020 · BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 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:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
- **Location:** 1500 George Wedgworth Way, BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA, 33430
- **NAICS:** 111930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a lock/latch mechanism when their pinky finger got caught between the piston and the rail of the machine, resulting in amputation of the pinky finger from the knuckle up.

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