# Avulsions, enucleations at Encore Wire Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017098675` · 9/10/2017 · MCKINNEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Milling machines
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Encore Wire Corporation
- **Location:** 1329 Millwood Road, MCKINNEY, TEXAS, 75069
- **NAICS:** 335929
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out a roller for a steel band on the drive mechanism of a rod mill when the machine caught his glove and pulled his hand into the roller. Friction from the roller caused a burn and pulled some of his skin off.

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