# Amputations at Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20201111190` · 11/27/2020 · ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation
- **Location:** 400 N 15th ST, ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS, 61068
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unclogging a scrap cyclone. The employee's finger was caught between a ladder and a dead blow hammer, and the fingertip was amputated.

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