# Amputations involving bone loss at TrueNorth Steel
> OSHA SIR `2025032825` · 3/26/2025 · HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** TrueNorth Steel
- **Location:** 220 4th Street Northwest, HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57350
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating industrial equipment to shape galvanized sheet metal and their fingers became caught in the equipment. The employee's right index and middle fingers were completely amputated and half of their right ring finger was amputated.

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