# Amputations involving bone loss at Yakama Nation Farms
> OSHA SIR `2024098669` · 9/17/2024 · WAPATO, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Harvesting and threshing machinery  corn
- **Secondary source:** Transmissions, gears
## Employer
- **Name:** Yakama Nation Farms
- **Location:** 8351 McDonald Rd, WAPATO, WASHINGTON, 98951
- **NAICS:** 111219
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*