# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Termax Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025021876` · 2/26/2025 · LAKE ZURICH, 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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Termax Corporation
- **Location:** 1155 Rose Rd., LAKE ZURICH, ILLINOIS, 60047
- **NAICS:** 339993
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up the dies on a metal forming machine. He was feeding some material through and jogging the machine when his left middle finder got caught in the point of operation and the fingertip was amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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