# Avulsions, enucleations at DE ELLIOTTE COMPANY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016109899` · 10/20/2016 · NEW CENTURY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** DE ELLIOTTE COMPANY, INC.
- **Location:** 201 PRAIRIE VILLAGE DR., NEW CENTURY, KANSAS, 66031
- **NAICS:** 322223
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning rollers with a rag. The rag got lodged in the roller, pulling in and degloving his right thumb.

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