A 19-year-old employee at Clark’s Custom Meat may have lost his hand in an industrial accident Thursday morning.

Colonel Bill Puett of the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department tells us that Bailey Kerns of Agency, Missouri was injured using a meat saw. A deputy went to the facility at 8411 US 59 shortly before 10 a.m.

“The individual’s hand had been injured, it was already wrapped when our officers arrived,” Puett said. “Our officer did apply a tourniquet to assist until E.M.S. arrived.”

Mr Kerns and his hand were transported to Mosaic Life Care and then transferred to see a specialist at the University of Kansas Medical Center.