# Amputations at Gates Industrial Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191212530` · 12/5/2019 · BRANDON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Gates Industrial Corporation
- **Location:** 700 East Redwood Boulevard, BRANDON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57005
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a jig to accommodate tube bending. The employee was holding stock near the chuck of the tube bending CNC machine while waiting for another employee to find an extension to hold the stock in the chuck, prior to actuating the clamp via a control panel. The clamp actuated, catching the employee's finger and degloving the fingertip which resulted in a medical amputation.

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