# Amputations at Able Engineering Services
> OSHA SIR `20171111192` · 11/24/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Able Engineering Services
- **Location:** 1 E. Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60604
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a belt when his right index finger was caught and amputated in the belt and pulley.

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