# Amputations at Ex-Tech Plastics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010033` · 1/2/2018 · RICHMOND, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Ex-Tech Plastics, Inc.
- **Location:** 11413 BURLINGTON RD., RICHMOND, ILLINOIS, 60071
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up an extrusion machine when the employee's right index finger entered a pinch point and was partially amputated.

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