# Amputations at Can Corporation of America Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017087915` · 8/17/2017 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Welding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Can Corporation of America Incorporated
- **Location:** 3723 Pottsville Pike, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19610
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an air gun to clean the lacquer off a bead tooling machine part when the air gun and employee's left hand were pulled into the machine, partially amputating the middle fingertip. The machine's interlock was in place at the time.

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