In a flash, a finger hangs in the balance; Surgeons labored for hours Friday to rebuild the right hand of 5-year-old Wyatt Krumrey and save his index finger after he got it caught in a meat grinder.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: February 16, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Curt Brown; Staff Writer

Sue Krumrey had funneled the first of three tubs of beef trimmings into a whirring, motorized grinder. She reached behind her to grab the second tub.

The family had run out of hamburger. And butchering meat has long been a tradition at her family's farms near Hector, Minn.

Five-year-old Wyatt had tagged along Tuesday evening as his mother headed out to the converted milking parlor at her in-laws' farm, 80 miles west of Minneapolis, where they do the slaughtering. That was nothing unusual either.

"It was a split second," Krumrey ...

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