Man loses hand after trying to mince his own meat at butchers

The customer, who is believed to be aged 19 or 20, put his own meat in a grinder after arriving as Surrey Halal Meat butchers was about to close its doors.

Malik Raza, who runs the butchers in New Malden, said the customers was collecting an order for someone and that he had gone into a walk-in fridge for ‘just few minutes’ when the incident occurred.

‘He had come over the counter and took the mince in the cubes, and put them in the grinder to do it himself,’ he said.

‘He said he was in a rush. Why couldn’t he wait? He started loudly crying and crying, so I came back. I saw his hand was stuck inside. I called 999 straightaway.

‘The ambulance staff told me to go outside so I couldn’t see what they were doing. My heart was beating so fast, I was so shocked. We were crying too.

‘They said I shouldn’t see what was going to happen.’

The accident happened shortly before 7:30pm on February 11

Malik, who runs the shop with his wife, added: ‘It’s very sad. We couldn’t sleep or eat for two or three days, it was so disturbing.

‘I have diabetes and it made it worse. We keep thinking about it. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.’

Both the London Ambulance Service and firefighters from Wimbledon fire station were called to the butchers shop.

A spokesman from Wimbledon Fire Station confirmed the man lost his hand in the accident.

He said: ‘The LAS were on the scene first. We were called because they needed our equipment to get him out.

‘We had to reverse the grinder. His hand had to come out the way it had come in.’

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/customer-loses-hand-after-trying-to-mince-his-own-meat-at-butchers-6464142/