# Amputations at Yellowstone Landscape Southeast, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065486` · 6/23/2022 · JENSEN BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Lawn edgers, clippers, trimmers-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Yellowstone Landscape Southeast, LLC
- **Location:** 3793 NE Ocean Blvd, JENSEN BEACH, FLORIDA, 34957
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming a hedge with a powered hedge trimmer. The trimmer became stuck in the hedge. While the employee was trying to remove it, its shears lacerated the employee's right hand across the palm and amputated the last quarter inch of the little finger.

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