# Avulsions, enucleations at Alabama Farmers Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019022089` · 2/25/2019 · EUTAW, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Farmers Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 1231 US Highway 43, EUTAW, ALABAMA, 35462
- **NAICS:** 311710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the manual fish skinner. The employee's glove was caught in the skinning device and the side of her right pinky finger was skinned. Her hand then rotated resulting in a laceration to the top of her right hand.

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