An employee of a Mayville-based manufacturing company was injured after being caught in a piece of equipment at a Beaver Dam facility. The Beaver Dam Fire Department responded Thursday to a call at the Mayville Engineering Company facility on Corporate Drive in Beaver Dam for a person entangled in an auger. On arrival, a 22 year old male MEC employee was entangled in an auger that supplies steel BB’s to a bead blasting unit. The man was extricated from the equipment and sustained extensive injuries to one of his lower extremities. He was transported to Beaver Dam Community Hospital and later air lifted by Med Flight to UW Hospital in Madison, with non-life threating injuries.
