# Avulsions, enucleations at Northeast Packaging Co.
> OSHA SIR `20171010053` · 10/19/2017 · PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Presses-printing
## Employer
- **Name:** Northeast Packaging Co.
- **Location:** 875 Skyway St, PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE, 04769
- **NAICS:** 322212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing over and typesetting the print on a press when the printer plate grabbed and de-gloved the employee's left ring and little fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

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