# Amputations at Metal Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017021028` · 2/1/2017 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal Container Corporation
- **Location:** 1100 N Ellis Road, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32254
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling the printer pinion gear at his work bench when his right pinky finger was pinched between the bearing housing and the housing of the gear box resulting in the amputation of his right pinky fingertip without bone loss.

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