# Amputations at Anderson Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017098756` · 9/12/2017 · WEBSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
## Employer
- **Name:** Anderson Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 1741 Commerce Lane, WEBSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57274
- **NAICS:** 332313
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a 1" steel plate. The steel plate hit a lip and dropped, smashing the employee's left thumb between the top and bottom steel plates amputating the thumb tip.

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