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Topic: Hyd leak danger - if

Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Hyd leak danger - if
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 11:19am

Article on hyd leak and injection under skin or into body .

< http://www.constructionequipment.com/hydraulic-injection-injury-insidious-potentially-devastating >

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Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 1:35pm

This happened to my grandfather. He was trying to relieve pressure in a hydraulic coupler on a tractor and got injected in his thumb. His whole arm turned purple and he lost most of the thumb.

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