# Amputations at Castwell Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015085909` · 8/19/2015 · SKOKIE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Castwell Products, LLC
- **Location:** 7800 N. Austin Ave., SKOKIE, ILLINOIS, 60077
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grinding a chisel. When he placed the chisel on the work blade, the grinding wheel caught the chisel through the work rest and pulled his left thumb into the grinding wheel. His left thumb was partially amputated.

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