# Amputations at Advanced Flexible Composites, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023098781` · 9/22/2023 · LAKE IN THE HILLS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scrapers-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Flexible Composites, Inc
- **Location:** 14 Walter Ct, LAKE IN THE HILLS, ILLINOIS, 60156
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making paper bags. As the employee was cleaning dried ink off a roller using a hand scraper, the scraper was caught in the roller. His left thumb was then pulled into the roller and the tip was amputated.

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