# Amputations at Dart Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20181111701` · 11/13/2018 · THOMASTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dart Container Corporation
- **Location:** 2260 Delray Road, THOMASTON, GEORGIA, 30286
- **NAICS:** 326140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an improvised bailing wire tool to retrieve a piece of scrap metal from the extruder. The tool got entangled in a moving part and was snatched from the employee's hand. The employee's right index fingertip was amputated.

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