# Amputations at BELLEFONTAIN CEMETERY
> OSHA SIR `2018010489` · 1/16/2018 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Lawn mowers-riding
## Employer
- **Name:** BELLEFONTAIN CEMETERY
- **Location:** 4947 West Florrisant Road, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63115
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a large lawn mower to hitch it to a tractor. His hand was on the mower's hitch when the mower moved, fracturing and partially amputating his left ring finger and cutting his middle finger. His ring and middle fingernails had to be surgically removed.

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