# Amputations at Callen Manufacturing Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016064888` · 6/2/2016 · NORTHLAKE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Casting machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Callen Manufacturing Corporation
- **Location:** 13 E. Lake St., NORTHLAKE, ILLINOIS, 60164
- **NAICS:** 331521
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the shock tip on the plunger of a die-cast machine when the machine retracted and amputated the employee's right thumb between the thumbnail and first knuckle.

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