The State - News from Oct. 28, 1987
Surgeons worked 3 1/2 hours in an unsuccessful attempt to reattach the arm of a 29-year-old Modesto laborer caught in a rock crusher, state and hospital officials reported. Chris Griffin was operating the machine at the Mule Creek State Prison construction site in Ione, when his right arm became caught in a belt that drives the equipment. The arm was severed at the shoulder socket, and it was so badly damaged that reattachment was impossible during surgery at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, officials said.
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