# Amputations at Arkansas Glass Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018043759` · 4/19/2018 · JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Arkansas Glass Container Corporation
- **Location:** 516 W Johnson Ave, JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, 72401
- **NAICS:** 327213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a tool that was dropped into the container former machine when the baffle arm on the machine struck the employee's elbow forcing the employee's right hand into the machine where it was trapped under a baffle. The employee's right ring finger was amputated just above the knuckle.

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