OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #760496
KICK BACK,SPLINTER,ABDOMEN,IMPALED,EDGER
Event description
Employee pierced by a wood splinter from a gang edger
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:40 a.m. on January 15, 1988, Employee #1, of Smith's Sawmill, in Mt. Airy, NC, was struck in the abdomen by a piece of wood that had splinter ed off from lumber being run through a gang edger. This piece of wood apparently kicked back from inside the edger. The splintered wood entered Employee #1 in f ront of his abdomen just below the rib cage and exited out his back just to the right of his spine. Approximately 8 inches of the 2 inch by 2 inch by 2 foot lon g piece of wood protruded out his back. Employee #1 was taken to Northern Hospit al of Surry County and then transferred to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Em ergency surgery was required to remove the splinter.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 14
- Occupation code
- 733
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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