# Amputations at 3M
> OSHA SIR `2022032039` · 3/6/2022 · ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** 3M
- **Location:** 610 North Brown County Road 19, ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57401
- **NAICS:** 339113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to manually unjam a component within a machine. An abrupt rotation within the machine caused the employee's left middle fingertip to be crushed between two metal machine parts. The fingertip was amputated.

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