# Avulsions, enucleations at Siemens Generation Services
> OSHA SIR `2017065838` · 6/26/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Engines, turbines, except vehicle
## Employer
- **Name:** Siemens Generation Services
- **Location:** Hiram Clarke Power Plant, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77045
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a gas turbine inter-stage seal ring. He was hand tightening a bolt when a coworker moved the seal ring by contacting a chain fall, causing the seal ring's sharp edge to contact and de-glove the employee's right index fingertip on the pad side.

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