# Avulsions, enucleations at Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2018099582` · 9/17/2018 · BUSHNELL, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 201 W Main, BUSHNELL, ILLINOIS, 61422
- **NAICS:** 332111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 17, 2018, an employee was testing a steel hammer handle in the gripper of an all-steel handle rougher when the employee's hand was caught between the steel hammer handle and a 50-grit belt, avulsing the employee's posterior right hand.

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