# Amputations at Chemaid Laboratories Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017043744` · 4/26/2017 · SADDLE BROOK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Chemaid Laboratories Inc
- **Location:** 100 Mayhill Street, SADDLE BROOK, NEW JERSEY, 07663
- **NAICS:** 325620
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaning on a unguarded conveyor belt of a packaging machine when a finger on her left hand became caught in a pinch point resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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