# Amputations involving bone loss at Stecks Nursery and Landscaping
> OSHA SIR `2025032956` · 3/29/2025 · BETHEL, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
## Employer
- **Name:** Stecks Nursery and Landscaping
- **Location:** 100 Putnam Park Road, BETHEL, CONNECTICUT, 06801
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were loading an excavator onto a flatbed truck. The injured employee was holding a piece of chain attached to the excavator and was guiding the machine operator when the excavator bucket lowered onto their right hand. The employee sustained amputations to their right middle, ring, and little fingers.

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