# Avulsions, enucleations at PRESTRESSED CASTING COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2017032921` · 3/28/2017 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
- **Secondary source:** Jewelry, ID badge lanyards
## Employer
- **Name:** PRESTRESSED CASTING COMPANY
- **Location:** 1600 S. SCENIC AVE., SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65807
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was exiting a patching truck while holding onto a ladder rack. The employee's ring became caught in the rack, resulting in an avulsion or degloving injury to the ring finger.

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