# Avulsions, enucleations at Pilgrims Pride
> OSHA SIR `20221211297` · 12/31/2022 · ATHENS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrims Pride
- **Location:** 898 Barber Street, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30601
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on the ice auger of a machine located on the roof of a processing plant. His arm got caught in the ice auger and sustained a degloving injury. The employee was hospitalized.

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