Apprentice saws-off thumb on hotel refurb site

Doctors managed to successfully reattach the thumb of a teenage apprentice after it was severed off by a rotating blade on a refurbishment site.
The then 18-year-old resumed his apprenticeship with another firm following the procedure.
He was employed as an apprentice joiner by 3B Construction when the incident happened during the conversion of a 19th century hunting lodge into a luxury hotel in the Highlands.The company has been fined £40,000 at Tain Sheriff Court following an HSE investi