Fireworks accident results in lost fingers
Sunday, July 5, 2020
BAINBRIDGE -- A 21-year-old man permanently injured his hand in a Fourth of July fireworks accident.
Reported as a partial amputation of the hand, the call for Putnam County EMS and the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department went out at 9:29 p.m. Saturday.
They arrived to find that the man had lost fingers in the explosion.
The man was transported to an Indianapolis hospital by StatFlight helicopter.
The incident is being investigated by Deputy Jeffery Freeman and Sgt. Kyle Gibbons of PCSD.
The victim had not been identified as of Sunday afternoon.