# Avulsions, enucleations at Columbia Recycling Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022043100` · 4/7/2022 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Yarn, thread
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Columbia Recycling Corporation
- **Location:** 1001 Chattanooga Avenue, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30722
- **NAICS:** 314999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a precision cutter that takes yarn off of cones by unraveling it. The employee was pulling cones out of a box and tying new filament to existing filament strands when a knot formed beneath his right hand and caught his right index finger, resulting in an avulsion that required hospitalization.

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