# Amputations at Western Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20181111278` · 11/1/2018 · BELOIT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Container Corporation
- **Location:** 1100 Inman Pkwy, BELOIT, WISCONSIN, 53511
- **NAICS:** 322219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was gathering paper tube scrap. While he was grabbing a piece of the tubing from a drop table, the table caught his left middle finger as it opened, causing a (non-bone) fingertip amputation.

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