# Avulsions, enucleations at Mount Franklin Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20180910071` · 9/29/2018 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Mount Franklin Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 1800 Northwestern Dr., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79912
- **NAICS:** 311911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packaging nuts using a bulk vacuum sealer. The sealer's press caught her middle fingertip, crushing it and causing the fingernail to be removed.

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