# Avulsions, enucleations at Frito Lay Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017053948` · 5/1/2017 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Frito Lay Inc
- **Location:** 4236 Kirklawn, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66609
- **NAICS:** 311423
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to put a pick conveyor's idler roller back in its track when his left hand was caught between the idler roller and the conveyor (pick) belt. His skin was removed from the back of his left hand, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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