Butcher Loses Hand Caught in Meat Grinder
From Times Staff Reports
A butcher’s hand was severed Monday when his right arm got caught up to the biceps in a meat grinder at a shop in Hollywood, a city fire official said.
Paramedics were called to El Rancho Supermarket on Vine Street, shortly after 5 p.m., said Brian Humphrey, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman.
They found a 45-year-old man with his arm jammed into a table-top meat grinder, Humphrey said. Paramedics took the 50-pound meat grinder to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with the man’s arm still caught in it.
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