Trapped coalminer cuts off his right arm to free himself

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Mr Jones, 43, pleaded with a miner to sever his badly crushed arm, but he refused, telling him a rescue team was on the way. But the desperate miner’s fear of being burnt alive was so great he refused to wait, cutting through his arm below the elbow with a Stanley knife on Saturday night.

“Col got out his Stanley knife,” a workmate said. “By the time the bloke had walked around to the other side of the front-end loader, Col had completely severed his arm.”