The Story Of Jonah Brown

It is hard to imagine seeing a hand with a hole right in the middle of it. The pain of a huge metal hole puncher coming down incredibly fast onto one’s hand and crushing it, and the thought that someone could never use their hand again, is unimaginable. However, it was possible for Jonah Brown because that is the sight, pain, and thought that he experienced. Jonah Brown is eighteen years old and lives in the country just outside of Edgerton, Ohio. He graduated high school last year and worked at a factory over the summer. Jonah is not currently working because of his injury. He is part of a large family including a brother, sister, mom, dad, and many pets. This is the Jonah Brown story and how a gruesome hand injury affected his life. This is how it happened. …show more content…
at the factory that he was employed at. He was working a large press machine that he was improperly trained on, and the machine wasn’t working correctly which made it very unsafe. Instead of the factory fixing the broken machine that kept getting parts jammed, they let Jonah work it. They gave him a long pole to move around jammed parts while the machine would be doing its job. One time, when a part got jammed at 2 a.m., a tired Jonah, not thinking clearly, stuck his left hand in the machine to unjam the part. The machine came down and pressed a large gaping hole right in the middle of his hand. There was one thought running through his mind. “Will I ever be able to use my hand