# Amputations at Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032846` · 3/28/2020 · WINDSOR, COLORADO
## 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:** Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- **Location:** 11133 Eastman Park Dr, WINDSOR, COLORADO, 80550
- **NAICS:** 327213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting the cause of a glass jam in a forming machine. As the employee was removing a knuckle pin from a glass forming machine so it could be replaced, the adjacent section's hanger opened. The employee's left thumb was pinched between the two sections, causing a partial amputation of the thumb tip.

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