# Amputations at FLAVORCHEM CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2018066127` · 6/21/2018 · DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Pumps
## Employer
- **Name:** FLAVORCHEM CORPORATION
- **Location:** 1525 BROOK DRIVE, DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60515
- **NAICS:** 311930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a pump. While his finger was in the pump's discharge port, the end of his right middle finger was amputated.

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