# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at South Dakota Soybean Processors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021782` · 2/24/2025 · VOLGA, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Drives, belts, chains
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** South Dakota Soybean Processors, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Caspian Avenue, VOLGA, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57071
- **NAICS:** 311224
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a cracker, which involves removing corrugated rolls and replacing them with new rolls. The employee was putting the machine back together and installing belts and sheaves (pulleys) when a pulley slipped or fell, and caught their fingers against the floor. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated.

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