# Avulsions, enucleations at Savage Services Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20171212174` · 12/23/2017 · WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Savage Services Corporation
- **Location:** 14872 42nd Street NW, WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58801
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee opened an access panel on a pipe rattler unit to adjust the pipe by hand. His right hand made contact with the pipe cleaning brush, which was still energized at the time, rubbing the skin on his hand away to the muscle layer.

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