# Amputations at FP Stores
> OSHA SIR `2018010498` · 1/16/2018 · CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** FP Stores
- **Location:** 490 River Oaks West, CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS, 60409
- **NAICS:** 448140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to close a baler door with two other employees. The two employees were pulling down on the door while the injured employee was pushing the paper into the baler. The door then pulled closed and pinched the employee's fingertips. The employee suffered two fingertip amputations.

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