# Amputations at Meade Electric
> OSHA SIR `2016087645` · 8/15/2016 · CHICAGO, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Meade Electric
- **Location:** 155 W. 84th Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60618
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a plastic pipe on the fusing machine when the ring finger on his left hand was caught and amputated between the mechanism of the fusing machine and the plastic gas pipe.

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