# Amputations at Wm. W. Meyer & Sons, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010780` · 10/15/2019 · LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wm. W. Meyer & Sons, Inc.
- **Location:** 1700 Franklin Blvd., LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS, 60048
- **NAICS:** 332911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was testing the RPM of a chain drive on an airlock valve assembly when the employee's right middle fingertip was caught in the chain drive, resulting in a fingertip amputation to the middle of the fingernail.

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