# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Yoshino America Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025088396` · 8/22/2025 · UNIVERSITY PARK, 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:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Yoshino America Corporation
- **Location:** 2500 Palmer Avenue, UNIVERSITY PARK, ILLINOIS, 60484
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 22, 2025, an employee was helping to move a 700-pound compressor cylinder cap head into position to slide down the bolt holes onto the bottom half of the cylinder. When a bolt hole aligned, his left index fingertip was caught in it. The cap came down and amputated the fingertip.

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