# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Hunt Forest Products L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2017098618` · 9/7/2017 · POLLOCK, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Hand grinders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Hunt Forest Products L.L.C.
- **Location:** 1860 Hwy. 524 east, POLLOCK, LOUISIANA, 71467
- **NAICS:** 321211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning suction holes on a stacker, using a 4.5" side grinder with a wire brush wheel. While cleaning pitch off the holes, he had the grinder in his right hand and was holding off some belts that were in the way with his left hand when the wire wheel contacted his left thumb. A piece of wire strand became embedded in his left thumb and had to be surgically removed.

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