# Amputations at Central Can Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021421` · 2/14/2023 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Can Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3200 S. Kilbourn Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60623
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing a stamping die that was removed from the press for transport back to the maintenance shop. While lowering it by hoist onto a die cart, the tip of his left little finger became pinched between the die and the cart table, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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