# Avulsions, enucleations at Joy Global Longview Operations LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2021086843` · 8/12/2021 · LONGVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Gears
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Joy Global Longview Operations LLC.
- **Location:** 5410 West Loop 281, LONGVIEW, TEXAS, 75602
- **NAICS:** 333131
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hoist to place gears in a pallet box. After setting a gear down on the pallet, the employee unhooked the chain sling and was moving the gear into the box by hand; the gear slid toward him and pinched his right ring finger against the box causing an avulsion injury.

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