# Amputations at Plastic Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191010868` · 10/17/2019 · URBANA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Plastic Container Corporation
- **Location:** 2508 N. Oak St., URBANA, ILLINOIS, 61802
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 17, 2019, an employee was using a shrink wrap machine to wrap cardboard boxes of plastic bottles on a pallet when his right thumb was caught in the wrapping process, causing a soft tissue amputation.

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