# Amputations at JS Kempt & Brothers, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20161111112` · 11/29/2016 · PALATKA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Plowing, planting, and fertilizing machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** JS Kempt & Brothers, LLC.
- **Location:** 200 E. Hicks Street, PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
- **NAICS:** 111219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a planter machine to plant broccoli. As he was pulling a plant from the planter machine's cup, the cup turned and amputated his right index fingertip. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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