# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Southern Forest Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054687` · 5/19/2025 · NEWTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Chips, pellets  wood
- **Secondary source:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Forest Products, LLC
- **Location:** 181 County Rd 2012, NEWTON, TEXAS, 75966
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an edger (planer) to make wooden runners out of scrap wood when the machine kicked back and a splinter of wood flew back and became embedded in the employee's upper left arm. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to remove the splinters.

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