# Amputations at Avlon Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201211808` · 12/17/2020 · MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Avlon Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1999 N. 15th Ave., MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS, 60160
- **NAICS:** 325620
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a kettle. A chain holding the kettle fell into the kettle, along with a nut that had held the chain in place. The employee was trying to retrieve the nut when his finger was caught in a pump hole. The pump amputated his fingertip.

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