# Amputations at TC INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016099269` · 9/30/2016 · CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** TC INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 3703 S. RT. 31, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, 60012
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a bundle of steel bar stock into a horizontal band saw when he suffered a severe laceration to the right index finger, requiring surgical amputation.

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