Incident date: 2024-09-17
NAICS industry code: 111219

An employee was cleaning out the belt line on a corn husker machine underneath the gears when their right arm was caught in the gears, resulting in an amputation above the elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Harvesting and threshing machinery  corn
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Upper arm(s)
severity: high