# Avulsions, enucleations at Martin Marietta
> OSHA SIR `2018077761` · 7/30/2018 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Chutes
- **Secondary source:** Cement truck, concrete mixer truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Martin Marietta
- **Location:** 1890 Mercer Pkwy, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75234
- **NAICS:** 327310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a concrete chute extension when his left ring finger was caught between the fold-over chute and the extension chute. He suffered an avulsion of the pad of the finger.

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