# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Northern Stainless Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025087906` · 8/11/2025 · PEWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Northern Stainless Corporation
- **Location:** 845 Hickory St., PEWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53072
- **NAICS:** 331513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was jointing a board with a jointer. The board jumped when it came into contact with the jointer's cutter head, and the jolt caused the employee's left hand to slide between the board and the guard and come into contact with the cutter head. He suffered lacerations/partial amputations to the middle, ring, and index fingers.

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