105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

POLLOCK, LOUISIANA—

Hunt Forest Products, LLC

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures

Final narrative

An employee was breaking out a second employee at the banding station area. A unit of plywood came into the banding station and was automatically strapped but failed to completely clear the banding area of the machine. The first employee walked over and was using his left hand to push the unit out of the strapper when his left foot contacted an electronic eye that controls the sequencing of the bander and triggered the machine. The top bar of the strapping machine then lowered onto his left hand, pinning it to the unit of plywood and breaking the bones behind the knuckles on his ring, middle, and index fingers. He was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Banding, baling, strapping machinery

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