# Amputations at The Laurel Group Landscape Management
> OSHA SIR `2020099012` · 9/22/2020 · GLEN HEAD, NEW YORK
## 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:** Agricultural and garden machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** The Laurel Group Landscape Management
- **Location:** 4 Carlisle Drive, GLEN HEAD, NEW YORK, 11545
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing the belt on a thatching machine when his thumb was caught between the belt and pulley and amputated below the nail bed.

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