CORN SHELLER AMPUTATES WORKER’S HAND

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Volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Guazapa branch, assisted a worker in the early hours of this morning who became trapped among the blades of a corn sheller on Guazapa Hill.

At around 4:30 this morning, José Agustín Castillo, 61, was preparing the sheller when the machine crushed his right hand. He was initially assisted by coworkers.

The rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of Guazapa arrived at Caserío la Esperanza, Guazapa Hill, in the jurisdiction of San José Guayabal, Departamento of Cuscatlán, to stabilize the victim and transport him to the CAE facilities in Apopa, where doctors referred him to Zacamil Hospital due to the severity of the injury.