# Amputations at Closets By Design
> OSHA SIR `2016065452` · 6/20/2016 · AURORA, 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 during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Closets By Design
- **Location:** 850 Ridgeway Unit A, AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60506
- **NAICS:** 423220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine to core holes in a product when the machine amputated the employee's right-hand little finger below the nail.

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