# Amputations at Standfast Group
> OSHA SIR `20181111421` · 11/6/2018 · CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Standfast Group
- **Location:** 710 Kimberly Drive, CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS, 60188
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On November 6, 2018, at 1:30 p.m., an employee incurred an amputation of the tip of his left thumb when his hand was caught between two print-down sections on a flexo-gluer-folder machine as he was closing the sections.

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