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SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ - Authorities say a teen was badly injured in a lawn mower accident Thursday in San Tan Valley.
According to Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson, three fingers of the 14-year-old boy were cut off when he stuck his hand under the deck of a running lawn mower.
The teen's fingers were recovered and immediately put on ice, Johnson said.
But an aunt of the boy told ABC the fingers were too badly damaged to be reattached.
Dispatchers received a call around 4:15 p.m. from a home near Hunt Highway and Gary Road when a neighbor said the teen had jumped over a backyard fence asking for help after he was injured.
Johnson said when deputies arrived they were unable to turn off the mower using the kill switch.
A deputy had to disconnect a wire from the spark plug to the engine to turn the machine off, he said.
The teen was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital where surgeons tried to reattach the fingers.
Johnson said the teen was alert and conscious through the ordeal and that he was home alone at the time.
His next door neighbor Enrique Vasquez told ABC that the teen jumped the block wall in between their yards to find help. Vasquez then called 911.
"It was very bloody," he said. "He was very calm though. He just kept saying that it burned."
The victim's parents were located and headed to the hospital.
Johnson said it was unclear why the teen reached under the running mower.
"It is crazy," said Vasquez. "I hope he is ok."
SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ - Authorities say a teen was badly injured in a lawn mower accident Thursday in San Tan Valley.
According to Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson, three fingers of the 14-year-old boy were cut off when he stuck his hand under the deck of a running lawn mower.
The teen's fingers were recovered and immediately put on ice, Johnson said.
But an aunt of the boy told ABC the fingers were too badly damaged to be reattached.
Dispatchers received a call around 4:15 p.m. from a home near Hunt Highway and Gary Road when a neighbor said the teen had jumped over a backyard fence asking for help after he was injured.
Johnson said when deputies arrived they were unable to turn off the mower using the kill switch.
A deputy had to disconnect a wire from the spark plug to the engine to turn the machine off, he said.
The teen was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital where surgeons tried to reattach the fingers.
Johnson said the teen was alert and conscious through the ordeal and that he was home alone at the time.
His next door neighbor Enrique Vasquez told ABC that the teen jumped the block wall in between their yards to find help. Vasquez then called 911.
"It was very bloody," he said. "He was very calm though. He just kept saying that it burned."
The victim's parents were located and headed to the hospital.
Johnson said it was unclear why the teen reached under the running mower.
"It is crazy," said Vasquez. "I hope he is ok."
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