This was a serious accident that I remember:

Dottie had another accident a year after her other one, she was about 17 at the time. They had got her a job up at Mercy through the MR (Mental Retardation) program there, they put her in the laundry room folding towels. One of the bosses figured he would teach her how to run this machine that you put sheets through to iron them, it had two rollers and it pulled her hand in, it didn't have any safety thing on it, and it burned three of her fingers down to the bone, they had to do a skin graft. When it happened they tried to cover it up, Mercy had her there soaking it in ice water, she was screeching the whole night. They bandaged her hand up and sent her home but she was still screeching all night so we took her back and they had to do surgery right that night. The worst part was that Mercy took the machine apart right that night, when the lawyer went up there to look at the machine it was gone. They closed that case in about five months or so. They sued Mercy, but I don't know what they sued for, the amount. We went through more with those burned fingers than we did with her brain injury.