Abstract: Employee #1, a sorter grader in a cut stock plant off of a resaw at a sawmill, noticed a 14 to 16 in. long, 2 by 4 block between a resaw outfeed belt (that was going around the tail spool) and the spool. He decided to reach in between the conveyor belts and catch the block as it came around the tail spool. As soon as his hand closed on the block, he was jerked in between the belt and tail spool, pulling his arm in and around the tail spool, dislocating his elbow, tearing the skin off his second finger, and abrading his forearm. When the belt was stopped, his arm was no longer between the belt and spool, but was twisted out of the elbow joint and wrapped around the tail spool shaft. He was extracted by cutting the conveyor belt and removing the tail spool. He was hospitalized.