Incident date: 2024-10-05
NAICS industry code: 115111

An employee was unclogging cotton from a gin stand using a 2-foot stick when their left arm was caught and crushed in the blades of the gin stand. The employee sustained a crushing injury of their left arm to the elbow, resulting in a surgical amputation a few days later.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: high