# Avulsions, enucleations at Teems Electric Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043363` · 4/9/2018 · PENDERGRASS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Teems Electric Company, Inc.
- **Location:** TenCate Geosynthetics, PENDERGRASS, GEORGIA, 30567
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee removed the master link out of the chain supporting a counterbalance that he thought had no weight. The counterbalance then fell and struck his upper arm, lacerating it and peeling off the skin.

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