Farmer Kurt Kaser, 63, cut off his own limb when it became trapped in a grain auger on his farm outside Pender, Neb.
By Lindsey Bever Lindsey Bever General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 20 at 3:02 PM Kurt Kaser had no time to consider his options.
“I just dropped to the ground and started pulling on my leg to try to get it out, but it wouldn’t come,” Kaser added, explaining that he knew he could not lie there and wait for help. “I didn’t know how long it would be before someone would show up. I didn’t know how long I would stay conscious.” Until that point, it had been a typical day for Kaser, who was working on his 1,500-acre farm outside Pender, a small town less than 100 miles from Omaha. It was early afternoon on Good Friday — April 19 — and Kaser was moving grain from one bin to another when he got caught in the auger, he said.
Still, during the ordeal — watching his leg get mangled in the machinery and then having to cut off what was left of it, feeling the pops and sharp pains as he severed his own nerves — Kaser said he wasn’t afraid. “I was just mad at myself because I knew what my mistake was: cutting that hole in the screen and stepping in it,” he said.
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