# Amputations at Brooks Automation Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023109855` · 10/25/2023 · CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Brooks Automation Inc
- **Location:** 15 Elizabeth Drive, CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01824
- **NAICS:** 334413
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disassembling a load lock subassembly when his thumb was pinched by the aluminum door on the load lock subassembly. A portion of the employee's thumb was removed below the nail.

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