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| Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife after it's caught in machinery |
| 2019-05-16 |
| A man who farms near Pender, Nebraska, went to extraordinary lengths to save his life after his left leg became trapped in a machine on his farm. In the early afternoon of April 19, Kurt Kaser, a lifelong corn, soybean and hog farmer, was transferring grain from one bin to another when he stepped into a grain auger. The machine ate away at his left leg and sucked the 63-year-old toward the machine. "I didn't know what to do," he said Tuesday. "I was afraid it was going to suck me in more. I about gave up and let it do what it was going to do." Mr. Kaser saw the machine remove his foot from his body and continue to tear away at his flesh. About 8 inches below his knee, he found the smallest connection of tissue and determined that it was his best chance to free himself. He sawed away at muscles and nerves, cutting through a half-inch to an inch before he came free. "The bone stuck out down to my ankle," he said. "That's what I was hanging onto as I was trying to get myself out." Once free, Kaser crawled about 200 feet to the nearest phone. He called his son, Adam, who is on the local rescue squad. |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #1 Ow. Get well. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2019-05-16 14:25 |