A brief moment of inattention had the fatal end for a worker at a construction site in Hochburg-Ach. The 45-year-old completely chopped off his left hand with a circular saw. Doctors are now trying to sew them back on.
A 45-year-old worker from Germany was with two colleagues at a construction site in Hochburg-Ach to install a photovoltaic system on the roof of a house. Then, while the worker was cutting metal profiles for the plant’s fixtures, his left hand got under the circular saw.
Air rescue from Germany
The consequences were devastating: his hand was completely severed. After urgent medical first aid, the seriously injured 45-year-old had to be flown by the German rescue helicopter “Christoph 14” to the accident hospital in Salzburg, where surgeons tried to sew his hand back on.
Source: Krone
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