# Amputations at Ball Metal Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20211210983` · 12/22/2021 · GOLDEN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ball Metal Container Corporation
- **Location:** 4525 Indiana Street, GOLDEN, COLORADO, 80403
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to fix a metal scrap chopper. His left hand was caught in the point of operation and he suffered an amputation to the middle fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an avulsion to the index finger.

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