# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at AdvanTech Plastics LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021515` · 2/17/2024 · WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Plastic injection molding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** AdvanTech Plastics LLC
- **Location:** 2041 Dillard Ct., WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS, 60098
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the chain and sprocket on the conveyor belt of an injection mold machine. As the employee was checking the chain's alignment, his right middle finger got caught between the sprocket and chain, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The conveyor was running at the time.

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