Abstract: At 9:40 a.m. on October 9, 2017, an employee was cleaning a work area while waiting for maintenance repairs to be completed on a waste removal system. The employee noticed that there was a corn cob caught inside the Nubbin Eliminator Belt and attempted to remove it by reaching in with a metal rod from the south side. The metal rod was a 1/4 inch rod bent at one end into a handle and the other end was shaped into a makeshift hook. The employee was pulled into the in-running nip point created by the bottom belt and the tail pulley and suffered an amputation to the right arm above the elbow. The employee was hospitalized.