# Amputations at Masaba, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019044005` · 4/18/2019 · VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Masaba, Inc.
- **Location:** 1617 317th Street, VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57069
- **NAICS:** 333131
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a steel plate onto the plasma cutting table when the steel plate hit the plasma table gantry shutoff cable and pivoted down. The employee's right middle fingertip was caught and amputated between the steel plate and the grating of the plasma cutting table.

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