Abstract: At approximately 2:45 p.m. on July 12, 2006, Employee #1, a lamination department employee, was cleaning up around the "Big Line" machinery and had picked up excess lamination skin trimmings. Employee #1 took the trimmings to the Freeman baler and placed them inside the compaction chamber. Employee #1 started the baler with the ram door open. As it was slowly going down, he reach into the chamber to push the skin trimmings back down. The ram caught Employee #1's right hand and arm and slowly pulled his appendage in, crushing and fracturing the arm and hand bones. Employee #1 was removed from the baler and transported to the local emergency room. Employee #1 suffered fractures and was hospitalized.