# Avulsions, enucleations at King Ranch, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109962` · 10/19/2020 · KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** King Ranch, Inc.
- **Location:** 12 Miles East FM 2045, KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, 78363
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees had shut down and locked out a cotton gin lint cleaner to clean it. An employee entered the lint cleaner and his glove was caught by the teeth of the cleaner. His glove was pulled off and the employee sustained a de-gloving injury to the top of the right hand.

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