# Amputations at Precision Plating Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022086758` · 8/1/2022 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Precision Plating Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 4123 W. Peterson Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60646
- **NAICS:** 332813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing sprocket tooling. The belt caught the employee's right hand pulling the index finger into the belt driver. The employee was hospitalized and the finger was medically amputated.

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