# Amputations at Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043742` · 4/19/2018 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 4001 NORTH 4TH AVENUE, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pounding a header onto a metal tank and struck his hand with a sledgehammer resulting in amputation of the left ring fingertip.

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