BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI—
Rex Lumber, Brookhaven, LLC.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Rex Lumber, Brookhaven, LLC., 810 W. L. Behan Rd, BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI 39601 on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was removing 3 feet of cut-up log from the sawmill floor when two fingers on his left hand were pinched and broken by the logs.
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