# Amputations at Best Diamond Plastics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022109316` · 10/24/2022 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Best Diamond Plastics, LLC
- **Location:** 1401 E. 98th St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60628
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a straw wrapper machine. The employee was removing straws from the machine's hopper when the straw transfer belts caught the employee's left middle finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

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