# Amputations at Dakota Panel
> OSHA SIR `2017021733` · 2/22/2017 · RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Panel
- **Location:** 1651 Culvert Street, RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57701
- **NAICS:** 321219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a banding machine and reached into the machine to remove a piece of wood. The platen that clamps the board closed on the employee's right index finger crushing the fingertip and fingernail.

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