# Avulsions, enucleations at Tyson Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129637` · 12/21/2015 · LEXINGTON, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 1500 Plum Creek Parkway, LEXINGTON, NEBRASKA, 68850
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to free up some stuck boxes along the conveyor line.  The employee was pulling on some stuck boxes when his hands slipped off the box he was lifting. He fell to the side and stopped his fall with his right hand. During that process, his right hand was caught between two rollers. In freeing his hand, he pulled the skin off the top of his hand.  He was hospitalized.

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