# Avulsions, enucleations at Dexter Axle Corporation, Plant #15
> OSHA SIR `20181111984` · 11/21/2018 · EL RENO, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dexter Axle Corporation, Plant #15
- **Location:** 500 SE 27th St, EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, 73036
- **NAICS:** 336350
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rotating an axle with a spreader bar that had hooks when the axle fell out of the hook and smashed the employee's finger between that axle and another axle. The employee's fingertip was de-gloved.

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