# Amputations at Spearfish Pellet Company
> OSHA SIR `2022098198` · 9/15/2022 · SPEARFISH, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Spearfish Pellet Company
- **Location:** 1930 McGuigan Road, SPEARFISH, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57783
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disassembling a blower line. When the employee removed bolts to separate a portion suspended by a crane from the ground-mounted portion, the ground-mounted portion settled and crushed a finger on the employee's left hand against the guard rail of a scissor lift. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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