# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Professional Sanitation Cleaning Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087452` · 8/14/2024 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Container caps, lids, covers
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Sanitation Cleaning Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 W. 44th St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60609
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing a food peeler machine when the cover closed on his right middle finger and amputated the fingertip. The nail is still intact.

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