# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Hicks Nurseries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043692` · 4/21/2025 · WESTBURY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Plowing and tilling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving, racks
## Employer
- **Name:** Hicks Nurseries, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Jericho Turnpike, WESTBURY, NEW YORK, 11590
- **NAICS:** 444220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the back of a box truck, working to maneuver a roto tiller away from the metal tool rack that hangs on the walls of the truck. His left ringer fingertip became pinned/stuck between the metal handle of the roto tiller and the metal tool rack, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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