Pardon me, there's an arm in my cake

Bakery allegedly discards employee's severed arm
AP

MADRID -A Spanish trade union is suing a bakery that allegedly threw the severed arm of an employee into a bin after it was amputated in an accident with a kneading machine.

The Workers Commissions said in a statement Wednesday that Bolivian immigrant Franns Rilles lost his left arm in May 28 at the Rovira bakery in the eastern Valencia region.

The union said that while Rilles was being taken to a hospital someone tossed his arm into the garbage. It says the bakery then cleaned the machinery and continued production.

Police found the arm the next day, the union said, but doctors were unable to reattach it.

The union said Rilles had worked illegally at the factory for two years, earning euro23 ($32) a day, and had not been properly trained on the kneading machinery.

I guess I'm less concerned about an arm in the trash than I am about the fact that the bakery operators didn't give the guy his arm back. I mean if they're taking him to the hospital without an arm the most common assumption would be that he lost it in a work accident so the bakery is screwed either way. So what's the harm in brining his arm along so the docs can sew it back on?

If this happened in the U.S. that guy would have a doozie of a lawsuit on his hands. I'm sure if I accidently chopped my cleaning lady's arm off and threw it in the trash I'd lose the mountain of chas the blog has brought in.