# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Creative Werks LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241110318` · 11/5/2024 · ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Special process machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Creative Werks LLC
- **Location:** 1470 Brummel Avenue, ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS, 60007
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a machine and greasing a drive chain under the tape sealer. The employee's right index finger became caught in the drive sprocket and chain and he sustained an amputation to the finger.

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