# Amputations at Bar Processing Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2015085854` · 8/17/2015 · CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bar Processing Corp.
- **Location:** 1601 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making adjustments to a vise on a cold saw machine when the vise clamped down on the employee's left hand, fracturing two fingers and partially amputating the index finger.

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