# Amputations at Coca Cola Company
> OSHA SIR `2016087823` · 8/20/2016 · HOWARD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Coca Cola Company
- **Location:** 217 Aqua Penn Drive, HOWARD, PENNSYLVANIA, 16841
- **NAICS:** 312111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about August 20, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., an employee was helping another employee to move a mold to be repaired on the 18-station blow molder when his right pinky finger was caught in the machine. His pinky fingertip had to be surgically amputated just past the nailbed.

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