# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at DO & CO Chicago Catering, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043077` · 4/2/2025 · DES PLAINES, 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** DO & CO Chicago Catering, Inc.
- **Location:** 2150 Frontage Road, DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, 60018
- **NAICS:** 722320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 2, 2025, an employee was reassembling a food-sealing machine when the machine activated and a metal plate pinched their right thumb tip, amputating it. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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