# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Taylor Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032361` · 3/12/2025 · LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization, 1 loss of eye**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Chips, pellets  metal
- **Secondary source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Taylor Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 28 Taylor Circle, LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI, 39443
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a hot tap. The employee set a completion plug in preparation of removing the completion plug stopple tool. The tool was not completely set, and gas pressure and metal debris were released from the blow out. The employee sustained multiple contusions and abrasions to the chest, neck and face area, loss of eyes, and finger amputations.

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