Fractures

Name: Fractures at Georgia Pacific Lumber Operations - Pineland
Start: 8/17/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019088487 · 8/17/2019 · Georgia Pacific Lumber Operations - Pineland

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-chain

Employer

Name: Georgia Pacific Lumber Operations - Pineland
Location: 105 Yellowpine Hwy, PINELAND, TEXAS, 75968
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee had been realigning a conveyor chain at an unscrambler. The employee went back to grab a board off the conveyor the machine started. The employee's arm was pinched between the chain and the unscrambler wall; the employee suffered fractures to the left ulna, radius, and hand, as well as a laceration between the left thumb and forefinger.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown