# Amputations involving bone loss at Sioux Steel Company
> OSHA SIR `2024010379` · 1/15/2024 · LENNOX, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Sioux Steel Company
- **Location:** 316 Industrial Avenue, LENNOX, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57039
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding a tube into a metal shaper. The stock was vibrating and the employee attempted to stabilize it when their left glove was caught in the point of operation, resulting in amputation of their left index fingertip.

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