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Feb 16 / 5:09pm

Four fingers amputated in Walsall

Thursday 16th February 2012 – 5.00pm – Claire Thomas.

 

A man has been airlifted to hospital after amputating four fingers whilst at work in Walsall this afternoon.

 

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to an engineering company on Westgate in Aldridge at 3.15pm today (Thursday). A senior paramedic officer, an ambulance crew and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford with a BASICS emergency doctor on board attended the scene.


A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “The man, believed to be in his 20s, had amputated four fingers from one of his hands after reportedly using machinery.

 

“His colleagues were administering excellent first aid by dressing his wounds, applying pressure and elevating his hand to stop the bleeding. They had also salvaged the fingers and placed them in cold packaging to preserve them.

 

“The man’s hand was carefully dressed by crews and he was given pain relief before being airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the regions specialist trauma centres, for further treatment and surgery in an attempt to reattach his digits.”

 

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