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Reattached fingers

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Reattached fingers

Lower Hutt gasfitter Dean Cutter lost all the fingers and thumb of his right hand when it was caught in a chain drive. ‘I was really worried I was going to be left with a stump,’ he said, but his fingers were reattached and he regained movement in them. ACC paid for his treatment.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1992/4967/26

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Hazel Armstrong, Workplace safety and accident compensation – Accident compensation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23256/reattached-fingers (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Hazel Armstrong, published 2 March 2010.