# Amputations at Berry Global
> OSHA SIR `20211210824` · 12/17/2021 · LANETT, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Berry Global
- **Location:** 3715 S. Phillips Rd., LANETT, ALABAMA, 36863
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reinstalling a 200-pound drive motor shaft in a mold machine, holding the shaft while aligning it and inserting it into the machine's shaft hole. The employee's left little finger was caught between a bearing on the shaft and the hole; the tip of the finger was amputated below the first knuckle.

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