A retired carpenter needed an urgent trip to hospital after slicing two of his fingers to the bone in an accident at his garden workshop. Colin Taylor said his middle and index fingers were "hanging off" after his electric wood cutter slipped and went into his hand.
The grandfather-of-three from Tredegar was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil by his daughter but was then transferred urgently to a specialist team in Morriston Hospital in Swansea for an operation to try and reattach the tendons. Despite them almost coming clean off, the medics were able to save his fingers.
Colin, 73, who was working on turning a piece of wood into a teapot-shaped plant potholder, recalled: "I had put the wood in a vice and started shaping it with an electric cutter. I had a new blade which was able to cut everything including metal. It had gone well, when I had an itch on my nose and went to scratch it. I took my hand off the cutter and it cut across the timber and across my hand.
