# Amputations at Ideal Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191111630` · 11/7/2019 · SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Ideal Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1800 Prairie Drive, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS, 60178
- **NAICS:** 335931
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On November 7, 2019, an employee was performing setup and changing the coil on an automatic crimper machine. As the employee was feeding the coil into a new point of terminals, the machine actuated and the anvil came down on his finger. The finger was amputated.

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