OSHA Injury Report: Appalachian Wood Products Inc.

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Employee was inspecting cabinet doors as they were coming down the conveyor line of the [REDACTED].

What happened

Employee was inspecting cabinet doors as they were coming down the conveyor line of #654 [REDACTED]. Cabinet doors go down the conveyor line and employees standing off to the sides have to inspect them for defects open joints rough spots ect. As the cabinet door was passing the employee she ran her hand along a rough spot on the door and received a large splinter in the middle finger of her right hand.

Injury or illness

Splinter foreign object in middle finger of the right hand.Employee went to the 1st aid room and removed the splinter. She thought that she had removed the splinter completely. A few days later the employee noticed that her finger was starting to hurt and looked swollen. She went to the local ER and had them look at it. They told her that there was nothing in the wound and discharged her. A few more days go by and the employees finger was getting worse. She went back to the local ER where they again told her there was no foreign object in her finger but they referred her to a hand specialist. The hand specialist determined that there was an approximately half inch piece of splinter still in her finger. The splinter had to be surgically removed due to it being in there for almost 2 weeks and the tendon growing around it. Due to the surgery the doctor kept the employee off of work for 2 weeks in order for the incision to heal properly and to avoid possible infection.

Object or substance involved

Wooden cabinet door.

Summary line

Splinter foreign object in middle finger of right hand. Splinter foreign object came from a wooden cabinet door.

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.