North Rhine-Westphalia: 22-year-old loses foot in an accident at the slaughterhouse

Herford (dpa / lnw) - A 22-year-old man was seriously injured after an accident at work at a slaughterhouse in Herford and flown to a special clinic in a rescue helicopter. The man's foot got stuck in a freight elevator on Saturday morning, so that it was severed, a police spokesman said. However, there was no danger to life. How exactly the whole thing happened was initially unclear. The scene of the accident was confiscated. The "Westfalen-Blatt" had previously reported.