
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 8, 1994                   TAG: 9401080086
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Adrienne Petty Staff Writer
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SHREDDING-PLANT WORKER LOSES PART OF ARM IN ACCIDENT

The arm of a Shredded Products Corp. worker was severed Friday morning while he was sorting automobile parts.

Robert Carr of Montvale was in very serious condition at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where surgeons were unable to reattach his right arm at the point where it severed from his elbow, a nursing supervisor said.

About 8:30 a.m., Carr's arm was cut by a pinch point between the belt and the conveyor, said Daniel Board, a spokesman at Roanoke Electric Steel, the parent company of Shredded Products. Carr's job at the car-shredding operation is to remove unwanted parts from a conveyor belt.

Carr was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital by helicopter. - ADRIENNE PETTY

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