OT: My Brother Was Ginted, By a Vending Machine Options

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My brother owns a vending business and was delivering a 500 LB soda vending machine to a new customer by himself on Thursday. With the lift gate up, he unbuckled the machine from the back of his truck and pushed the machine (on a dolly) to towards the gate.

Being it was raining and the lift gate was wet, the machine started to slide off the gate. As he jumped off the truck to stabilize the machine, he tripped and fell. That is all he remembers.

After he fell, and knocked himself out, the machine fell on his upper torso and face. Luckily he was delivering the soda machine to an EMT station and the EMTs saw the accident. The EMTs put him in their ambulance and rushed him to the hospital.

Injuries include cut on the back of his head from the initial fall, 3 broken ribs, broken collarbone, Jaw broken on both sides (tape around his jaw in the video is holding his jaw in place until he enters surgery perhaps on Tues next week), cheekbone shattered, and 2 black eyes.

None of the injuries are life threatening so we are very glad for that. He's resting comfortably right now with some of morphine to ease the pain.


Warning: Disturbing video of my brother in the hospital

Jim in the Hospital