# Amputations at Silgan Plastics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023042932` · 4/3/2023 · NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan Plastics, LLC
- **Location:** 80 Loomis St., NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA, 16428
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing work on a blow wheel machine during training. As the employee's hand was on the cam track, a co-worker manually moved the blow wheel and the employee's right thumb was pinched between the track and the moving cam on the track, 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*