Farm worker hospitalized after getting caught in equipment
Updated: Nov. 19, 2018 at 8:12 AM CST
PEACH ORCHARD, AR (KAIT) - A Clay County farm worker had to be taken to the emergency room Sunday after his hand got caught in a piece of farm machinery.
Sheriff Terry Miller said Paul Valdez was loading grain Sunday at a farm near Peach Orchard when his hand got caught in a short power take-off shaft.
Valdez managed to pull free, Miller said, and was taken to a Poplar Bluff hospital with a possible broken arm.
The sheriff said Valdez was alert and talking when he left the scene.
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