# Avulsions, enucleations at Adhesives Research, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019021941` · 2/21/2019 · GLEN ROCK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Adhesives Research, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Seaks Run Road, GLEN ROCK, PENNSYLVANIA, 17327
- **NAICS:** 325520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a slitter machine with a rag. The rag got caught on the rollers pulling his right hand into the machine. The employee sustained a degloving injury to the hand and a right thumb fracture.

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