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Injured Worker Donates Prosthetic Arm to Fellow Amputee

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | 0

An injured worker literally gave his right arm to an amputee following a chance encounter in a Northern California parking lot. Robert Ballesteros lost the lower half of his right arm as the result of an injury he sustained while working at a Bay Area shipyard in the '90s, according to a report by the Modesto Bee. In 2001, his employer's workers' compensation carrier bought him a $30,000 bionic arm. But Ballesteros' arm had atrophied too much to be able to use the prosthetic device, and it sat in a box for the past 14 years. On Tuesday, Ballesteros was leaving a Ripon r...

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