# Amputations at Topy Precision Mfg., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043124` · 4/6/2017 · ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Topy Precision Mfg., Inc.
- **Location:** 1375 Lunt Ave., ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS, 60007
- **NAICS:** 332722
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a build-up of metal shavings on the carrier plate of the double disc grinder when her right middle finger was caught and amputated between a hole in the carrier plate and the rotating disc.

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