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Teen Severs Arm While Cleaning Pasta Maker
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Christopher Robbins
Published Apr 27, 2014
Modified Apr 27, 2014
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A teenager employed at an Italian restaurant upstate severed his arm while cleaning an industrial pasta maker. According to the AP, 17-year-old Brett Bouchard was cleaning the machine at Violi's Restaurant on Thursday evening when his right arm became caught and was severed at the elbow.
Bouchard was flown from Massena Memorial Hospital near the Canadian border, to Massachusetts General Hospital. The co-owner of the restaurant told the Daily Courier-Observer that Bouchard had blood flow to his right hand after undergoing the first procedure to reattach his arm. Asked about his recovery, a hospital spokeswoman said Bouchard's condition had been upgraded from critical to serious, and was "definitely in a good place" with respect to his recovery.
Employees at Violi's are still trying to determine how the machine turned on while Bouchard was cleaning it.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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