A three-year-old has been hospitalized twice after suffering through what his grandmother, Mandy Truman, described as a “freak accident.”

The family, who live in Oklahoma, were enjoying an afternoon outside when the toddler tried to push a tricycle forward — and instead wound up with his hand caught in the chain, Truman told KOCO-TV . 3

“He just barely moved forward, and that’s all it took for that chain to grab ahold of his little finger, and then another one and another one,” she recalled.

Once his hand was caught in the sprocket connected to the trike’s chain, he instinctively tried to pull it back “out of fear,” Truman explained, which ultimately caused the digit to be disfigured.

He lost the middle finger on his left hand, but his grandmother argued the damage would have be

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