A resident of the English city of Farsley, West Yorkshire, accidentally sawed off his hand and part of his forearm with a heavy-duty electric saw. The Daily Mail reports.
The incident took place on November 13th. Security guard Jason Merritt, 49, sawed off an old shed for wood for a fireplace and inadvertently sawed off part of his left hand. According to him, he did not have time to realize what happened. “I was wearing a sweatshirt, so it must have got caught in some way, but I don’t know for sure,” he says. “It all happened so quickly.”
As a result, Merritt got stuck in the mechanism and began to loudly call for help. A neighbor came running to his screams and called the victim’s wife, 64-year-old Elaine. Another eyewitness called the emergency services. A few minutes later, a rescue team arrived by helicopter.
Merritt received the necessary medical attention in a timely manner. He spent four days in the intensive care unit and two more in the ward. He was operated on, they sewed on the sawn-off part of his arm and was discharged on November 19. According to doctors, the hand temporarily lost sensitivity, but in the next one and a half to two years, the nerve endings will recover.
Last year it was reported that a resident of Australia accidentally sawed his face with a chainsaw and got to the hospital on his own. The chainsaw swept along the man’s face from the left eye to the right collarbone, severely damaging his jaw and tongue.