# Amputations at Tangent Technologies, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181010891` · 10/22/2018 · NORTH AURORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tangent Technologies, LLC
- **Location:** 220 Poplar Place, NORTH AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60542
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a saw to cut plastic boards when he made contact with the saw blade and sustained a laceration to his middle right finger, resulting in a partial amputation of his fingertip.

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