# Avulsions, enucleations at NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND
> OSHA SIR `2018066257` · 6/24/2018 · PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND
- **Location:** 400 MARSHALL RD., PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII, 96860
- **NAICS:** 928110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was placing a channel iron inside an automated vise to secure the iron for cutting with a bandsaw. The vise automatically closed while the employee's left ring finger was between it and the channel iron causing an avulsion injury and hospitalization.

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