# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Schleuniger, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043886` · 4/25/2025 · BUFFALO GROVE, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Schleuniger, Inc.
- **Location:** 1100 Corporate Grove Drive, BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60089
- **NAICS:** 334419
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a benchtop wire processing machine that is used to make wire harnesses for commercial applications. A guard had been removed in order to access the components. The employee was testing the "trigger" sensor of the machine and adjusting the blades when the machine actuated and a blade amputated part of his left index fingertip.

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