The Sixteen Seconds
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.