# Amputations at Dakota Turkey Growers, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `20171212139` · 12/21/2017 · HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Turkey Growers, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 40253 US Highway 14, HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57350
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a breast skinner with another employee and had opened a magnetic interlock door to halt the machine's operation. The other employee held a wrench close to the interlock and the machine engaged, pulling the maintenance employee's right hand between a sprocket and chain. The employee suffered a pinky finger amputation and partial ring finger amputation. The machine was energized at the time of the incident.

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