# Avulsions, enucleations at Baldwin Supply Company
> OSHA SIR `2019044136` · 4/23/2019 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Baldwin Supply Company
- **Location:** 908 East Amidon Street, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a conveyor belt slitter when their thumb was caught between two rollers and pulled into the belt slitter. The employee sustained a degloving injury to the right thumb, requiring hospitalization and a skin graft.

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