# Avulsions, enucleations at Texas Tissue Converting, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019099327` · 9/8/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Tissue Converting, LLC
- **Location:** 1521 Greens Rd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77032
- **NAICS:** 322291
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee loading boxes into a case packer machine lost their footing. Upon slipping, the employee's thumb contacted a part of the machine causing a partial de-gloving of the right thumb that required hospitalization.

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