# Amputations involving bone loss at Adams Land Company
> OSHA SIR `2024109309` · 10/5/2024 · LEACHVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Adams Land Company
- **Location:** 490 N Main St, LEACHVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72438
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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