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TEXAS - A worker at a Texan concrete plant chopped off his own arm to escape a piece of machinery he was stuck in.
AP reports that the 52-year-old got is sleeve caught in a machine and was then forced to cut of his arm at the elbow to free himself.
The man, who nearly died at the scene, is in a critical but stable condition in a Austin county hospital.
- NZ HERALD STAFF
