I assumed — everybody assumes — that she meant another child.

She did not.

Hilario Saenz was thirty-four years old in the August of 2019 and had worked at Gaddis Timber for six years.

His right hand was caught in a debarker on a Thursday morning.

He was not taken to a hospital.

He was driven home by a shift supervisor, a trip of nineteen miles, with a shop towel on his hand, and he was told that the company would take care of it and that a doctor would come to the house.

No doctor came to the house.