Miracle recovery for US man after horror injury

A man is lucky to be alive, doctors said, after he accidentally impaled himself on pruning shears.

Miracle recovery for US man after horror injury
Tue, 30 Aug, 2011 - 10:28

A man is lucky to be alive, doctors said, after he accidentally impaled himself on pruning shears.

University Medical Centre said today that Leroy Luetscher, 86, of Green Valley, Arizona, was working in his garden on July 30 when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.

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