# Avulsions, enucleations at Art Boards Direct, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20211110047` · 11/19/2021 · SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Planing mills
## Employer
- **Name:** Art Boards Direct, LLC
- **Location:** 3N545 North 17th Street, SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS, 60174
- **NAICS:** 339940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning saw dust from the exit end of an automatic, double-sided planer with a compressed air nozzle. The employee's hand was caught in the machine, resulting in severe lacerations and a degloving injury requiring surgery. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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