# Avulsions, enucleations at Esmark Steel Group
> OSHA SIR `2016010746` · 1/26/2016 · UNIVERSITY PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Esmark Steel Group
- **Location:** 700 Central Avenue, UNIVERSITY PARK, ILLINOIS, 60484
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the slitting machine while wearing gloves. While actuating the rollers on the slitter, the employee attempted to remove a piece of scrap. The roller pulled his glove into the point of operation, causing an open avulsion to his left thumb and an open wound to his left pointer finger.

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