# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Boise Cascade
> OSHA SIR `2017010621` · 1/19/2017 · LENA, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Product assembly machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Boise Cascade
- **Location:** 8835 Highway 1 North, LENA, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 321213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clean the focus eye lens in a trough that wood passes through on the lay-up assembly line. The machine started while the employee's right ring finger was in the strike area and a piece of wood crushed the finger, breaking it and causing the fingertip to burst.

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