# Amputations at Atlas Hydraulics Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109626` · 10/9/2020 · BRANDON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlas Hydraulics Inc.
- **Location:** 700 East Redwood Boulevard, BRANDON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57005
- **NAICS:** 332912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a tube bender and noticed that one of the pressure dies was misaligned. The employee initiated a manual pause on the bender and then started adjusting the pressure die. A separate pressure die actuated, catching the employee's finger between the pressure die and a tube die causing injury to the distal phalanx of the right middle finger which required medical amputation.

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