Abstract: An employee was working in a chicken-processing plant, placing and scanning product labels on boxes and crates of chicken. The employee stepped backwards away from a pallet of chicken to let a powered pallet jack move between him and the stationary pallet of chicken. His smock caught in an unguarded chain-and-sprocket assembly and wrapped around the square shaft located between the sprockets. The clothing pulled the employee against the chain-and-sprocket assembly, and he received a laceration running from his abdomen to his armpit. The injured employee lost a strip of skin 100 millimeters wide and 150 millimeters long from his abdomen. His right bicep muscle was pulled away from the bone, and he received a severe laceration above his left knee, which caused nerve damage to his left leg. He was hospitalized for his injuries.