# Amputations at Ball Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20161111120` · 11/30/2016 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **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:** Ball Corporation
- **Location:** 6600 Will Rogers Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76140
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was converting a cupper machine by removing the die set when the die set slid back and amputated his left ring and pinky fingers.

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