# Amputations involving bone loss at High Plains Steel Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024064968` · 6/5/2024 · WINDSOR, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** High Plains Steel Services, LLC
- **Location:** 2055 Howard Smith Avenue East, WINDSOR, COLORADO, 80550
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lining up metal in a punch press when his left hand became caught in the point of operation. The employee sustained an amputation of the middle finger and an amputation to the first knuckle of the index finger.

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