# Amputations at Wilson Trailer Company
> OSHA SIR `20161211846` · 12/21/2016 · YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wilson Trailer Company
- **Location:** 3602 Broadway Avenue, YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57078
- **NAICS:** 336214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to manually fit a side panel for a livestock trailer when his finger was pinched between the side panel sheets causing a 1 cm amputation of the employee's left middle fingertip.

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