# Amputations at Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Hi-Cone Division
> OSHA SIR `2022109504` · 10/30/2022 · ITASCA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Hi-Cone Division
- **Location:** 1140 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., ITASCA, ILLINOIS, 60143
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with an extruder and punch press. The machine rolled extruded plastic into two large coils held together by a shaft, which had become stuck; the employee was trying to release the shaft by releasing air from the chuck while the shaft was hit from the opposite side with an item. The shaft and coils broke free, and the employee's left index fingertip was caught between the shaft and the second coil and amputated.

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