# Amputations at United Pulse Trading, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231211089` · 12/4/2023 · MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Pulse Trading, Inc.
- **Location:** 625 42nd Street NE, MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA, 58701
- **NAICS:** 424590
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring the milling process when the flexible sock fell off a sifting machine. The employee put it back on and when he pulled his hand out, his right index finger was cut by a metal edge on the machine. The employee's right index finger was amputated. The machine was running at the time.

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