# Amputations at Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019066415` · 6/25/2019 · CHESTER, 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation
- **Location:** 111 Industrial Drive, CHESTER, ILLINOIS, 62233
- **NAICS:** 311230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a bagging machine at a cereal plant. The machine's jaws (which shut and sealed bags) caught the employee's left index finger and amputated it.

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