Abstract: At approximately 9:30 a.m. on August 31, 2012, Employee #1, a 48-year-old male laborer with Western Cascade Industries LLC, was straightening logs approximately eight-feet long by eighteen-inch diameter on a stepper to the log chain at the Mill. Part of the process was for the operator to eject (kick) logs that are of oversize lengths and diameter onto a conveyor to take them out of the system and eject them onto the ground. The line had shut down because of a problem further in the Mill. However, the log on the conveyor had not been ejected to the ground. Employee #1 and operator where called into the Mill to help with the problem. As Employee #1 left his station, the log was automatically ejected and thrown into him. The log struck and fractured Employee #1's left leg. Employee #1 was hospitalized as a result of this event.