The harrowing incident occurred when Gross Pointe sanitation worker Rick Braun wounded his arm on a piece of glass left in a trash bin
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- Michigan sanitation worker Rick Braun suffered a severe arm injury after being cut by broken glass in a trash bin
- His co-workers used makeshift tourniquets before 19-year-old Public Safety Officer Paul Lyke arrived and assessed the situation
- Lyke rushed Braun to the hospital in his own vehicle instead of waiting for an ambulance to arrive — a decision that may have saved the other man’s life
A teenage safety officer in Michigan said he defied protocol in order to save the life of a sanitation worker with a life-threatening injury.
Rick Braun, a Grosse Pointe Farms sanitation employee, was working a typical shift the morning of Sept. 4 when he cut his arm on some glass that a resident had placed in their trash bin, according to local outlets Grosse Pointe Newsand WXYZ Detroit.
At first, Braun did not realize he had sustained a serious injury…