# Amputations at Vertex Fasteners
> OSHA SIR `2020099116` · 9/25/2020 · DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Vertex Fasteners
- **Location:** 1798 Sherwin Ave., DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, 60018
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a coil of steel on an arbor of a steel slitting machine. As he was picking up something on the floor, an opening of the arbor caught his right ring finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip.

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