From A New Hope:
Chewbacca: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!
C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you.
Han Solo: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han Solo: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
Chewbacca: Grrf.
C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win.
While Han was probably joking, it raises the question; was Han basing this on personal experience? Had he ever seen Chewbacca rip anyone's arms off?
Answer
Wookieepedia says:
Ssoh (From Star Wars: Chewbacca)
Ssoh became the only Trandoshan to live after a hand-to-hand battle with Chewbacca after the enraged Wookiee ripped his arms and his legs out of their sockets
An unfortunate droid (From The Art of Star Wars Galaxy: Volume Two)
Chewbacca angrily pulls a droid's arm out of its socket over a holoboard game.
And then, of course, in the Lego Games...
The canon section only makes reference to the excerpt from A New Hope cited in the question. Hence, it's reasonable to assume that Chewbacca probably has pulled out someone's arms before in canon, it's just we haven't seen it!
The Wookieepedia page on Wookiees explains that:
Wookiees also had the justified reputation of ripping the arms of their enemies out of their sockets, which was known to occur in instances of losing a game. That state of racial rage served as the basis of the deal-slang expression "wookinate", which referred to the rendering harmless an enemy using excessive force—obviously referring to the great physical strength that provided the essence of Wookiee combat
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