# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Macksteel Warehouse, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076561` · 7/8/2025 · WATERTOWN, 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:** Metal building materials  unspecified form
- **Secondary source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Macksteel Warehouse, Inc.
- **Location:** 415 20th Avenue Southeast, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57201
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using the forks on a forklift to support a 1-inch thick sheet of metal. The forklift was lifting the sheet up two inches from the original process bed when a 1-inch thick metal skeleton (cut out of the sheet of metal) dropped through the original sheet onto the employee's left ring fingertip. A quarter inch of the fingertip was amputated.

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