# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076946` · 7/31/2024 · CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
- **Location:** 3310 W Springfield Ave, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, 61822
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 31, 2024, two employees were working to raise a base mold into its position on a blow molding machine. The injured employee lifted up on the base mold with his right hand and was holding the support when a second employee used a metal bar to lift the base into its fully-raised position. The injured employee's fingers were caught between the base support and the mold-holding unit resulting in the amputation of their right ring fingertip.

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