# Amputations at BWAY CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2023032045` · 3/6/2023 · DAYTON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Plastic injection molding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** BWAY CORPORATION
- **Location:** 7 WHEELING ROAD, DAYTON, NEW JERSEY, 08810
- **NAICS:** 326121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking to see if the feed throat was clogged on an injection molding press. When the employee slid the hopper back, their left middle fingertip was pinched by the hopper and amputated.

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