# Avulsions, enucleations at West Fraser, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016098569` · 9/10/2016 · OPELIKA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** West Fraser, Inc.
- **Location:** 2100 Industrial Blvd, OPELIKA, ALABAMA, 36801
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grading lumber in the planer mill (dry end) when a lumber plank "crossed-up" and slowed/stopped production. When the employee tried to clear the "crossed-up" lumber plank, his left hand was crushed by the plank and a u-shaped piece of steel lacerated his left hand between the wrist, thumb, and first finger. He suffered a partial de-gloving and a broken bone in the thumb.

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