# Amputations at The Advance Equipment Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2023021327` · 2/10/2023 · 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, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Advance Equipment Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 4615 West Chicago Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60651
- **NAICS:** 332216
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a frame and tool handle in an injection molding machine when the machine pressed parts together. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the frame and handle of the tool being manufactured, and the top of the finger was amputated.

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