# Amputations at R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
> OSHA SIR `2021075691` · 7/12/2021 · ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
- **Location:** 2075 Busse Road, ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS, 60007
- **NAICS:** 323110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a tool to clear a jam in the rotary cutter machine when the door on the machine closed on his left thumb resulting in a loss of flesh on the front of the thumb without bone loss.

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