# Amputations at Chicago Heights Steel
> OSHA SIR `2022021212` · 2/9/2022 · CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Chicago Heights Steel
- **Location:** 211 E. Main St., CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's finger was crushed between two steel bars on the roll line, resulting in an amputation to the distal phalanx of their left middle finger.

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