# Avulsions, enucleations at CLIMAX MANUFACTURING COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2015074715` · 7/16/2015 · LOWVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** CLIMAX MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- **Location:** 7840 STATE RT. 26, LOWVILLE, NEW YORK, 13367
- **NAICS:** 322212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was looking for debris on the rollers of the flexographic printer. She pulled the web back and her left-hand thumb got caught by the impressing roll and print cylinder. Her thumb was degloved and required surgery.

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