A man who survived a leg amputation following a crush injury in a forklift accident later died of heart complications linked to the incident. The man survived a traumatic crush injury after the hydraulics failed on a forklift he was working on. Over the years it does a tiny bit of damage every year, in particular to circulation and to the heart,” Dr Cullinane said. The heart goes into an abnormal rhythm and stops beating and they weren’t able to restore circulation. It happened because of everything he’d been through in the previous weeks, the injury, the operation, the infection,” Dr Cullinane said, returning a verdict of accidental death.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2018 16:41 UTC