A carpenter suffered a life-threatening stroke, blindness, sepsis and pneumonia after a wood splinter in his hand became infected. Dave Parkyn was left blind in his right eye, partially sighted in his ...

TO MANY OF US, GETTING A SPLINTER IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU JUST CAN’T GET OUT. YEAH, KIND OF ANNOYING, RIGHT? THE MAN HAD THIS HAPPEN TO HIM. ONLY THE SPLINTER WAS SO BIG HIS HAND GOT SO INFECTED HE ...

The accident happened on a 40-foot slide built in 1950 that is a local attraction at Mount Tabor Park in Rocky Ridge. Second Assistant Fire Chief Luke Humerick Jr. said Wednesday he used a utility ...