# Avulsions, enucleations at Heritage Metalworks, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2023021627` · 2/20/2023 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Drills-stationary
## Employer
- **Name:** Heritage Metalworks, LLC.
- **Location:** 400 Locust Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19106
- **NAICS:** 236118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about to install a fence and use a core drill. As the employee was working, his hair became stuck in the drill and he suffered an avulsion of the skin from his scalp and both ears and required surgery.

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