“My colleagues kept me alive”

A Colorado man lost both legs in a freak accident on his first day of work on Monday, September 23, according to reports The Denver PostAnd Give me a call.

John O’Neill, 33, said he “technically died” after suffering an accident while working on a wood chipper in Longmont, Colorado.

At 10:18 a.m., 15 minutes into his first day on the job, O’Neill inserted a fishhook-shaped branch into the machine The Denver Post. The chipper blades overturned the branch’s hook, which caught O’Neill’s court-ordered ankle monitor and pulled him into the wood chipper.

“I didn’t feel the pain as much because I knew I was in trouble,” O’Neill recalled The Denver Post. “It went from a fight for my limbs to a fight for my life very quickly.”

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He told the outlet: “It took a minute before [his] “The colleagues realized what was happening because of the hearing protection they were wearing.” When they realized what was happening and were able to pull him out, the blades hit his mid-thigh.

“I looked down and saw something that looked like what you see in movies,” O’Neill said The Denver Postdetailed how he saw his own skin, bones, arteries and muscle tissue. In addition, he and his colleagues created a makeshift tourniquet with a rope to reduce blood loss.

“I was on the verge of disappearing, but my colleagues kept me alive,” O’Neill said. Authorities arrived at the scene and placed tourniquets on him before transporting him by Flight For Life helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado.

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