Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Name: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Coastal Forest Products, LLC.
Start: 10/19/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016109843 · 10/19/2016 · Coastal Forest Products, LLC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Arm(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified

Employer

Name: Coastal Forest Products, LLC.
Location: 102 Main Street, CHAPMAN, ALABAMA, 36015
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was freeing a jammed wood product (veneer panel plywood) from a saw line workstation. While freeing the jammed plywood from the grader bin, the operator pinned/pinched his arm between a piece of metal angle iron (under a load) and the metal cross member causing a puncture wound on his right arm below the bicep.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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