# Amputations at Axium Packaging LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020054338` · 5/9/2020 · BARTLETT, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Axium Packaging LLC
- **Location:** 1411 Brewster Creek Rd, BARTLETT, ILLINOIS, 60103
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee went to clean the belt of a trimmer on a machine that is used to make plastic bottles. The belt caught the rag, pulling his right index finger and pinching it in the equipment. As a result, he sustained a partial amputation of the right index fingertip (no bone loss).

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