An accident while cleaning a peeling machine left a 68-year-old Escalon Premier Brands worker with major injuries, the man losing both his arms in the industrial accident on Thursday afternoon, July 2. The plant, in the 1900 block of South McHenry, was the scene of a rescue operation, as fire and emergency officials were called to the location about 12:15 p.m. Thursday. “He was working in what was called peeling machinery during a clean-up operation and ended up losing both arms, at least preliminarily, from the elbow down,” explained Escalon Consolidated Fire Protection District Chief Rick Mello.