# Amputations at POET Biorefining Groton
> OSHA SIR `2018077536` · 7/25/2018 · GROTON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Centrifuges
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** POET Biorefining Groton
- **Location:** 40425 133rd Street, GROTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57445
- **NAICS:** 325193
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing gaskets on a disc stack centrifuge and using a specialized tool to pull the disc stack when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the tool and the stack, resulting in a partial distal 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*