A Nebraska farmer says he's fortunate to be alive after his leg got stuck in a grain auger dealing him a life or death decision: Cut off his limb or die. 'I didn't have no other choice,' Kurt Kaser, a 63-year-old grain and hog farmer in Pender, Nebraska, told ABC News on Tuesday.
A Nebraska farmer says he's fortunate to be alive after his leg got stuck in a grain auger dealing him a life or death decision: Cut off his limb or die.
"I'm kind of disappointed in myself that I didn't think of fixing that thing, or whatever. But that's why they call it accidents I guess," Kaser told ABC News. There was no one around to hear him yell for help, and making matters worse, he couldn't find his cell phone. "I felt it try to grab me again," he said."I about gave up and said, 'Whatever happens happens. If it sucks me in all the way, it's over with.' But then, all at once, I thought of my pocket knife."
He said he contacted one of his sons who relayed the emergency to 911. A medical helicopter flew Kaser to a trauma center in Lincoln, about 90 miles away, where he underwent surgery on his leg.
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