# Amputations at METAL CONTAINER CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2017098706` · 9/11/2017 · ARNOLD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Vises, clamps
## Employer
- **Name:** METAL CONTAINER CORPORATION
- **Location:** 42 Tenbrook Industrial Drive, ARNOLD, MISSOURI, 63010
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an aluminum scrap brick clamping bar to move scrap to a pallet when the clamping bar amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.

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