# Avulsions, enucleations at Brookshire Grocery Company
> OSHA SIR `2020054482` · 5/13/2020 · TYLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Brookshire Grocery Company
- **Location:** 13157 N. Hwy 271, TYLER, TEXAS, 75708
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing an elevated conveyor belt that had separated and stopped turning on the rollers. He repaired the belt and re-energized the system. The belt still did not move properly, and he moved to view the mechanism from a different angle. The belt caught his left hand and pulled it into the roller mechanism. The employee's left hand was crushed and degloved.

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