# Amputations at Metal Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20181010434` · 10/9/2018 · WINDSOR, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal Container Corporation
- **Location:** 1201 Metal Container Court, WINDSOR, COLORADO, 80550
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a motor assembly with a belt/pulley. He was inspecting the belt for tears when his right pinky finger was caught in a pinch point between the belt and wheel, resulting in a partial amputation of the right pinky finger.

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