# Avulsions, enucleations at Alpha Coating Technologies, LLC- PPG West Chicago
> OSHA SIR `2021087464` · 8/31/2021 · WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Coating Technologies, LLC- PPG West Chicago
- **Location:** 1725 Western DR, WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60185
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 31, 2021, an employee was running an extruder. As the employee used a metal spatula to scrape built-up extrudate from the chill knife, he lost his balance and his little finger was caught in the rollers. The fingertip was degloved.

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