Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 70,589Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

Asteroid Precision, Inc.

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Asteroid Precision, Inc., 2190 South Wolf Road, DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS 60018 on , Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the thumb(s).

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An employee was cleaning coolant tank magnets used to separate metal grinding mud from the coolant tanks. As the employee went to separate two magnets they snapped back together and crushed his right thumb, resulting in amputation of the top of the thumb.

Amputation Thumb(s) Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells