# Avulsions, enucleations at Hixson Lumber Sales
> OSHA SIR `2015062590` · 6/1/2015 · PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Planing mills
## Employer
- **Name:** Hixson Lumber Sales
- **Location:** 125 Hixson Road, PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72127
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up Planer #2, a wood cutting machine, to cut lumber. He dropped his wrench in the machine, which was running at the time. As he reached in to retrieve his wrench, his hand got caught in the roller and the other moving parts, peeling the skin from his right hand and three middle fingers.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*