# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Asteroid Precision, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065342` · 6/17/2024 · DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Asteroid Precision, Inc.
- **Location:** 2190 South Wolf Road, DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, 60018
- **NAICS:** 332721
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning coolant tank magnets used to separate metal grinding mud from the coolant tanks. As the employee went to separate two magnets they snapped back together and crushed his right thumb, resulting in amputation of the top of the thumb.

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