A 4-year-old Maine boy is adjusting to life a year after his legs were severed in an accident involving a front-end loader.
The Sun Journal reports Adam Mattson lost his right leg last October while he was with his grandfather at the family’s gravel pit. Authorities say the injury happened when the New Vineyard boy got underneath the bucket. The bucket lost hydraulic pressure and lowered down onto the boy’s legs.
Surgeons at Boston Children’s Hospital were able to reattach the Adam’s left leg. He has undergone 17 surgeries since the incident.
Adam’s mother, Kim Mattson, says her son’s left leg is healed but that he has many challenges ahead of him. Mattson says everyone who donated money and sent gifts helped the family.
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