I was sitting on the couch a few hours ago minding my own business watching some you tube videos on TV, my work cell phone rings.....My boss calls and states the hygiene crew (cleaners) were doing a training exercise on the slaughter floor tonight and there has been an finger amputation! yikes i get in my car and leg it into work which is about 15 minutes from home, by the time i get there the guy is already on his way to hospital. Strangely enough i ask the other members of the hygiene crew where is all the blood? they respond saying they were cleaning at the time and decided to wash it away. NZ law states when an accident like this happens you preserve the scene!
So after talking to the hygiene crew they inform me that they were cleaning the hock cutter while it was "live" - still plugged in!, while one guy held it at the trigger end ( the nephew) while the other guy( his uncle) cleaned the blades at the dangerous end! - the guy holding the trigger end slipped and must have activated the button and off came his uncles finger. This is similar to cleaning a 22 rifle... you clean the barrel and i will hold the trigger end! needless to say this is going to cause me some work in the next few days
Below is a picture of a hock cutter that is designed for taking the foot of the animal off - it would be similar to cutting a human foot off at the ankle
Christmas day should be a fun family get together for this family :)
Nasty...
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