“Metz’s arm had become caught between heating cores inside the boiler on Monday. Within hours, Metz, 31, could smell the flesh of his crushed arm beginning to rot, the telltale sign of life-threatening infection.
“Very quickly it became apparent to me I had a major problem,” he said.”
Within hours? It usually takes longer than that. I forget how long the guy in Utah was trapped before his fingers turned black. It was days though, not hours.