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Currently, Romania lacks a tradition of trade schools. This is due to the lack of awareness on the importance of this educational structure. Such multiple trades have been learned by simple observation from one individual to another. The importance of security measures has been taken for granted if not ignored. The number of traumas produced in wood processing has decreased rapidly due to the appearance of wood processing robots, the human factor being reduced only to their programming. The cases that arrive in the emergency departments are in a major percentage from the rural area, where the wood processing is done in the household without an adequate training and without going through a learning process. Hand injuries represent a great part of the Emergency Department presentations, and because of their fundamental functional use in daily life, repair of such lesions should be done with utmost care. Wounds of the hand typically have different degrees of severity depending on the mechanism of injury. Hand trauma probably represents the most frequent pathology of a plastic surgery ER and it should be handled with utmost care because of the fundamental function in the daily routine. The present article presents the therapeutic conduct of a complex case, multiple wounds with bone exposure, digital nerve sectioning and destruction of the flexor system of several fingers.