# Avulsions, enucleations at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020010497` · 1/16/2020 · UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Fences, fence panels, gates, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
- **Location:** 79 Matthew Drive, UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 15401
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a stop sign when the employee's finger was caught in between the stop sign and the brace, resulting in an avulsion to the right pinky fingertip.

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