# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Western Potatoes Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025032871` · 3/27/2025 · ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Clothing
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Potatoes Inc
- **Location:** 189 Brayton Road, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, 69301
- **NAICS:** 424480
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just finished repairing a chain and sprocket. He turned on the machinery and his sleeves got caught in the chain and sprocket. The employee sustained partial amputation of his lower left arm. The employee was hospitalized.

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