# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Rex Lumber, Brookhaven, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2024065377` · 6/18/2024 · BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Rex Lumber, Brookhaven, LLC.
- **Location:** 810 W. L. Behan Rd, BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI, 39601
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training to operate the planer mill sorter. While standing on the upper catwalk he noticed that a bin was malfunctioning. As he was cleaning the photo eye, his left arm was caught on the framework of another bin as it was coming back to the up position, breaking and degloving his left forearm.

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