# Avulsions, enucleations at Lassiter Lumber, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2017098890` · 9/16/2017 · MILLRY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Air compressors
## Employer
- **Name:** Lassiter Lumber, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 107 Millry Mill Road, MILLRY, ALABAMA, 36558
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning an energized air compressor and sustained an avulsion injury to his right hand that required hospitalization and surgery to repair.  The belt and pulley guard was not in place at the time.

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