Surgeons almost had to amputate the arm of New York man to free him from the grip of a garbage truck compactor. The 49-year-old Geneva man was trapped for three hours Friday when his arm became wedged in the compactor’s steel jaws.
For a time, things looked so grim that two trauma surgeons and an anesthesiologist were flown to the accident scene in Farmington for a possible amputation.
Rescuers were finally able to free the man using cutting torches.
The victim was being treated at a hospital in Rochester.
The flame of a cutting torch can reach temperatures of over 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
{Examiner/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}
how did that happen?
BH he is ok.