# Amputations at Dakota Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022021009` · 2/2/2022 · WEBSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 20 Park Lane, WEBSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57274
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing the correct chute onto a sand auger spout. Their index, middle, and ring fingers contacted the moving auger, resulting in amputations of all three distal phalanges.

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