Malta News for September 28, 2016: Thayne Mackey

Malta’s Thayne Mackey suffered a serious injury last week in which he lost his left hand. Thayne is in the hospital getting healed up and is doing better.

On Friday afternoon while working at his wool mill, Thayne’s hand was sucked into a carding machine (two huge steel rollers covered with steel bushings.) He was stuck there for nearly seven hours before a family member went looking for him and found him trapped. Thayne was immediately flown to the trauma center in Denver, Colo. The damage was too severe and the doctors had to amputate down to his left wrist.

Thayne was in good spir...