{"id":1174,"date":"2025-12-22T01:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:06:19","slug":"19-year-old-crushed-by-forklift-chooses-to-amputate-bottom-half-of-his-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old crushed by forklift chooses to amputate bottom half of his body"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Loren Schauers, a young laborer from Montana, was living an ordinary life \u2014 until September 2019, when everything changed in an instant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Faced with a life-or-death decision, the courageous teenager made the unimaginable choice to have half of his body amputated, all to survive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As per reports,\u00a019-year-old Loren Schauers, of Great Falls, Montana, was in the process of driving a forklift truck across a bridge when it fell and plummeted 50-feet to the ground. The teenager was\u00a0left trapped under\u00a0the four-ton vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Loren, conscious the entire time, watched as his right arm was crushed and the bottom half of his body was pinned down by the truck.<\/p>\n

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