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Show Mapleton youth seriously hurt in farm mishap Rudy Carnesecca, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carnesecca of Mapleton, is in the Utah Valley Hospital as a result of a tractor accident on the Carnesecca Car-nesecca farm which occurred Friday. He is paralyzed from the waist down. The boy's spine was shattered shatter-ed when the tractor tipped on a slope and rolled over him. He was rushed by ambulance to the hospital when his uncle, Joe Carnesecca, who was irrigating irri-gating nearby, saw the accident acci-dent and assisted prior to calling cal-ling for the ambulance. Rudy was cultivating tomatoes when the accident happened. He is still in serious condition condi-tion and will be confined to the hospital several months. He is paralyzed from the tenth vertebrae above the waist down plus having several broken ribs and other bruises. ! |