# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Blain's Farm & Fleet - Loves Park, Illinois
> OSHA SIR `2024087152` · 8/6/2024 · LOVES PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Lawn mower  walk behind
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Blain's Farm & Fleet - Loves Park, Illinois
- **Location:** 7300 East Riverside Boulevard, LOVES PARK, ILLINOIS, 61111
- **NAICS:** 444210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the low/high speed screws on the carburetor of a push mower when the mower shifted backward and the employee's right-hand fingertips came in contact with the moving mower blades. The employee sustained a laceration to a fingertip and two fingertip amputations.

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