# Avulsions, enucleations at WV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2019021472` · 2/9/2019 · MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses-printing
## Employer
- **Name:** WV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING COMPANY
- **Location:** 1251 EARL CORE DRIVE, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, 26505
- **NAICS:** 511110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After a roll change, an employee was scooping up waste paper when his left hand was caught in a conveyor on the newspaper press, resulting in a de-gloving injury and hospitalization.

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