Wash. rodeo coordinator loses 2nd finger on job

[August 26, 2008]  WATERVILLE, Wash. (AP) -- Some people may lose sleep on the job or even lose the stapler off their desk. Dane Keane loses fingers.

The 52-year-old Washington rodeo coordinator was helping to secure a bull in a bucking chute Saturday evening when his finger got caught between a rope and a metal fence pole. His left index finger ended up being amputated at the second joint.

But it wasn't his first time losing a finger on the job. In 2000, Keane lost the end of his right ring finger to a bull.

Keane, also a Douglas County commissioner, says he loves the rodeo but says it's "a little on the bad luck side" for him.

[Associated Press

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