Farmer stuck in harvester cut off his own arm

A MAN whose hand got caught in a corn harvester cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after the machine caught fire.

Construction supervisor Sampson Parker farms as a hobby in Kershaw County, South Carolina, in the US.

When he tried to remove a cornstalk stuck in the rusty harvester, his hand became stuck. He said: “I went up with my hand, and the roller that takes the shucks off the corn had grabbed the glove and pulled my hand into the rollers.”