# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Wilson Trailers
> OSHA SIR `2024075890` · 7/1/2024 · YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Wilson Trailers
- **Location:** 3602 Broadway Street, YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57078
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a brake press. He was using an offset upper die to break a steel plate at 90 degrees when his left thumb was caught between the upper portion of the die and the part being bent. The employee sustained amputation of the thumb above the second knuckle.

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