Trapped Nebraska farmer amputates leg with a pocket knife
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).
Source: The Age
Omaha, Nebraska: A north-eastern Nebraska farmer is recovering after cutting off his own leg with a pocket knife to save himself from a piece of farm equipment he had become caught in.
Omaha television station KETV reported that 63-year-old Kurt Kaser, of Pender, was unloading corn last month when he got out of his truck and accidentally stepped on the grain hopper opening.
An auger in the hopper caught Kaser's leg, pulling it in and mangling it. An auger is a tube that uses a rotating shaft to suck the grain and push it through the tube to deposit in a bin.
Kaser said he didn't have a phone on him and there was no one around to help. He watched as the machine tore his foot off and mangled his lower leg as it pulled him further inside.
The farmer then took out his pen knife and cut off what remained of his leg below the knee.
Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/trapped-nebraska-farmer-amputates-leg-with-a-pocket-knife-20190516-p51ntr.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
