Originally published at: Man walking around carrying his severed arm saved by tree trimmers trained in tourniquets | Boing Boing
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idid not see that coming. i thought sure this was taking place in either florida or texas. and since i’m from texas i was betting on that.
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The fact that even municipal arborists were so well trained in “what to do in case of severed limb” is a good illustration of why logging is the most dangerous job in the United States (fatal injury rate of 111 per 100,000 workers, almost 10 times as high as cops).
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No sir, this is not what they mean by “cash and carry” or items costing “an arm and a leg”.
ETA: I worked a couple of years as a tool and cutter grinder, and the closest I’ve come to losing something was my thumb. It’s still in place, thankfully.
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I still can’t fathom how one can cut their arm off with a bandsaw, unless it is a huge beast of a machine and you were actually trying to cut your arm off. Heading to the shop to run some tests.
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With your arm, or someone else’s?
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I just hope that the full story of how it happened doesn’t involve Tik Tok.
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omg what a horror show of an experience for everyone involved. i’d definitely just faint and be NO help at all.
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My mind could not parse this headline. I tried and tried. Could not do it. Then I clicked into the actual BB post and read the paragraph, and then I understood. But only then.
I think the shock of “walking around carrying severed arm” short circuited my reading skills.
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I, for one, support the thin blue plaid line!
Yeah, bandsaws are so much safer to operate than circular saws.
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He may be limb’ited for awhile.
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Did the arborists try to reattach his limb using grafting wax?
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I’d probably hold it together, but the “at the shoulder” part made me do a double-take. All my first aid class discussions about tourniquets assumed the injury was lower than that… 
Glad they were able to help him!
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It could have been one of those bandsaws that is designed to lower down on a clamped pipe or other piece of metal rather than the kind you push a piece of wood through for hobby projects. One of those would probably make short work of a human arm if someone was reaching through the machine when the blade came down. (This is a pic of the basic type of machine I’m talking about but they make them way bigger too).
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I’m betting that something fabric-ish (a sleeve?) got sucked into the blade and pulled him into it. Happens so fast you don’t even have a chance.
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How do we know it was his severed arm 
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So. Many. Questions!
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I am only guessing, but maybe it started to tip over, and he tried to catch it…
Many (most? all the ones in the metal shops I’ve worked in) horizontal bandsaws have a means of controlling the feed rate. Even with aluminum those things are falling at a snail’s pace.
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