# Amputations at Sunstar Americas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020054631` · 5/19/2020 · SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunstar Americas, Inc.
- **Location:** 301 East Central Road, SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS, 60194
- **NAICS:** 339994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to open the sealer bar on a piece of bagging equipment, which had closed in the down position due to low air pressure. The sealer bar closed on the employee's right index finger, causing a partial fingertip amputation (halfway down the nail, with no bone loss).

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