Myron Schlafman. The 69-year-old Jamestown, North Dakota, man was making sausage in his garage on Aug. 17 using an electric meat mixer. The AP reports that as he removed a chunk of meat from the machine he accidentally stepped on the pedal that powered it, pulling his left arm into the device. He says the bone was severed but the hand remained attached via skin, nerves, and tissue—and that he believed he’d bleed to death if he didn’t remove the hand above his wrist immediately, reports KFGO.
“When I cut off my arm, I could feel my nerves jumping,” the right-handed man says. “If I would have hesitated, I would have stood right there and bled to death.” He says a tourniquet applied by two responding officers further enabled him to survive. Doctors weren’t able to reattach the hand, reports KFGO, so he’ll ultimately be outfitted with a prosthetic one. His take on the situation is an optimistic one: “I went through Vietnam. I can handle this.”
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Do not order the Blood Sausage from North Dakota for Christmas this year.
Whole new meaning for a finger sandwich…
Eeeek!
Even I know to kick the sewing machine foot pedal out of the way when I’m changing a needle. lol!
I sleep on my cot in a friend’s meat house in Palasades WA on a ranch when hunting over there and the meat grinder in there could eat a man without even a hiccup. I suspect that is what we are looking at with regard to the machine in question. I have seen entire boned out steer and elk reduced to burger in under five minutes by that machine. It would take me the whole day with my grinder and it has a 3 horse motor.
…but it’ll be twice as hard now.
AMEN LOCO ! DON’T TRUST MAN OR MACHINE DAMMIT !
JDHasty, is Palisades, Wa. North of Ephrata and NE of Quincy on the way down to Wenatchee if I remember right. I think we drove thru there once way back in the 60’s and I remember it was dry, desolate and sage brush heaven. I am not a big sage brush fan, we lived in Ephrata for about 3 years or so in the early 60’s when my dad ran a Chevron gas station there.
I grew up in a town near Jamestown, ND. Mid to late 60s I remember man working the local graining and seeding company was working on his own on a Sunday. Got his right sleeve caught in a bagging machine and cut his own hand off with his pocket knife.
Don’t know what the settlement was in the 60s but he later purchased a local bar. I believe alcohol was involved in the 1st incident and the second!
Oh, he had a hook and a hot daughter.
There is no way I am following this story! I didn’t read a word after the headline! And I know how the comments go, not reading those either…You people are gross! 🙂 I know better.
had a good friend that had a farm as a side-hobby, got his arm caught in a chipper & tried to wrench his arm out w/ his other hand & got that caught & mangled too … ended up w/ no arm on one side & no hands
… afterwards he laughed & said he was stupid for trying to retrieve a busted arm, though there was little alternative
I am truly in awe of those that are truly faced w/ actual, real-time dilemmas & act accordingly
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – Been said that when Jackie scrambled from the back of the Limo, she was not trying to get out but was trying to get JFK’s head parts to try to put them back in,, Share your thoughts about real-time dilemmas & act accordingly.
Good man.
Fargo and wood chippers go hand in hand.
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy and the pickle slicer.
Let’s all give this guy a big hand…what, too soon?
You’ve got to hand it to him. He’s pretty handy with that grinder. He deserves a hand.
Good thing he wasn’t an organ grinder……
(Ouch)
Could have been worse. Might have been making hands and had to cut off his sausage.
Tools are extensions of the hands, and safer when dealing with grinding, cutting, splitting machinery; since ‘Lefty’ musta missed that point, he’ll be obligated to use tools in the future.
Prosthetic tools.