MONROE — Friends and family are rallying around a Green County dairy farmer who is recovering from a major farm accident last week.
According to the Green County Sheriff’s Office, just after 4 p.m. on Monday, May 30, emergency crews were called to a farm in the W6700 block of CTH D in the Town of Mount Pleasant. That’s where victim Randall Anderson was found to have his leg stuck in a hay unloading table — a machine with an auger that had wrapped around his leg, said Anderson’s wife Megan, who on Thursday was with her husband at a Madison hospital.
Somehow, she said, the machine jammed and after getting his leg stuck, Anderson was able to reach into his pocked and pull out his phone and dial 911.
“Albany EMS, Green County EMS and Monticello Fire Department personnel were sent to the scene,” said Green County Sheriff Jeff Skatrud. “The individual was extricated from the machinery by the Monticello Fire Department and transported by ambulance to a hospital.”
Doctors were able to save Anderson’s leg, but it was badly broken at both the tibia and the femur, said Anderson, adding that “all the surgeries are done we are just hoping and waiting now.”
She expected her husband to come home within a few days but he faces a long period of recovery and rehabilitation to be able to use his leg normally again. While Anderson said they are optimistic for a full recovery, the costs of all that care will be hard on the family.
“Randall is the primary financial provider for his wife and children, and this accident will impact their family significantly in many ways, financially, emotionally, and physically,” said the GoFund Me fundraiser request posted by Kim Qualley. “Due to the accident, Randall’s wife Megan will be putting her Cosmetology schooling on hold to become Randall’s primary caregiver.”
As of Thursday, they had thus far raised over $1,500 toward a $100,000 goal. A brat/dinner basket fundraiser also is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 7 at Leisure Lanes in Monroe. And A chili cook-off is scheduled for Oct. 22 at Leisure Lanes; as well as an 8-pin tap fundraiser from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Oct 29.
