# Avulsions, enucleations at Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015096618` · 9/10/2015 · DODGE CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation
- **Location:** 3201 E. Hwy 400, DODGE CITY, KANSAS, 67801
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching clamps to a hide at the side puller station on the kill side of the plant when his left thumb got caught in the clamp. He sustained a left thumb avulsion.

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