Injured worker puts civil settlement to work for others

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Cheektowaga woman who was left paralyzed after an accident at work more than ten years ago is on a mission to help others. Natalie Barnhard is working to bring a spinal cord recovery center to the Western New York.
Barnhard was a personal trainer and physical therapist at the time she was exercising with a 600-pound piece of gym equipment that fell on her, rendering her a quadriplegic in 2004. Doctors gave Natalie little hope she would ever use her arms or legs ag