# Amputations involving bone loss at UltiMed, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032401` · 3/18/2024 · DE SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** UltiMed, Inc.
- **Location:** 710 4th Street Southeast, DE SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57231
- **NAICS:** 339112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a missing piece to a pen needle assembly machine jig when it pressed down on her right middle fingertip, crushing it. The fingertip was amputated halfway through her fingernail.

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