# Avulsions, enucleations at Vorteq Coil Finishers LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019077566` · 7/24/2019 · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Vorteq Coil Finishers LLC
- **Location:** 2233 26th Street SW, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18103
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was wiping off a machine's safety guard while the bottom side rolls were forward coating. Part of his rag dropped into the nip and sucked his hand into the rolls, de-gloving his left index finger.

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