# Amputations at Toyota Boshoku America, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2015086000` · 8/21/2015 · LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Product assembly machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Toyota Boshoku America, Inc
- **Location:** 100 Trim Masters Drive, LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62439
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker assemble a vehicle seat.  The seat was moving down the assembly line on a jig, which allows the seat to tilt forward and backward.  The employee tilted the jig with one hand while his other hand was in a pinch point. The employee's right-hand pinky fingertip got degloved between the first knuckle and the start of the fingernail. The employee was hospitalized.

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