BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) - Police say two officers tried to help a Long Island man save his hand after it became caught in a meat grinder.
Newsday reports (https://nwsdy.li/1VJDaLU ) Bilal Hussein was working at Halal Meat and Grocery in Bay Shore Tuesday afternoon when the accident happened.
Suffolk police say Officers Walter Justincic and Carmine Pellegrino of the Emergency Service Section detached the machine from a table and rushed to the hospital.
Police say they and Officer Danny Coan then helped doctors sterilize and dismantle the machine so surgeons could reattach the hand.
Police say it wasn’t immediately known late Tuesday if Hussein’s hand had been saved.
Police say the injury isn’t considered life-threatening.
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Information from: Newsday, https://www.newsday.com
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