# Avulsions, enucleations at Continental Casting, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017021858` · 2/28/2017 · MONROE CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Continental Casting, LLC
- **Location:** 801 Second Street, MONROE CITY, MISSOURI, 63456
- **NAICS:** 331521
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was de-burring a piece of flat steel on the abrasive disc sander when his hand was pulled in behind the tool rest, trapping his left thumb between the piece of steel and the abrasive disc. The top of his left thumb was sanded down to the bone.

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