N.C. Man Remains Hospitalized From Mishap with Chainsaw
SURRY COUNTY, N.C. --
A Flat Rock resident who has lent his vocal skills to many churches around the area can now use some prayers from those congregations as he fights to recover from a chainsaw accident involving partial loss of a limb.
David M. Goins, 47, who resides on Silkwood Trail, is a patient at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he underwent surgery Monday in preparation for a prosthetic device.
Goins, an employee of Insteel Industries in Mount Airy, was injured Wednesday night while cutting wood near his home, where he lives with wife Amy and their two children, ages 20 and 18.
“It was a serious accident,” Surry County Director of Emergency Services John Shelton said. “He had a deep wound.”
The injury occurred while Goins was working with a large chainsaw to remove wood left from a right-of-way clearing project. He had sent his son Chase back to their home for an ax and in the meantime the saw slipped and “hit” the operator on the leg, according to David Sparks, Goins’ pastor at Flat Rock Pentecostal Holiness Church.
“And it literally just took his right leg off a few inches below the knee,” Sparks said. Goins, a deacon who serves on the governing board at his church, also lost much blood.
After the accident, the injured portion of his leg was hanging by a small strip of flesh. “There was nothing they could do,” Sparks said of any attempts by medical personnel to save the leg.
The Surry EMS transported the injured man to the trauma center in Winston-Salem, where he has undergone multiple surgeries since. In addition to the injury itself, doctors have been concerned about possible infection.
Goins -- who also has a daughter, Asia -- has managed to maintain a great attitude during the ordeal, his pastor said.
“David is taking this whole thing like a real trouper -- he is showing such courage and grace under crisis,” Sparks said. “He’s an inspiration to everybody that has seen him react to this.”
In addition to his active role at Flat Rock Pentecostal Holiness Church, Goins is well-known to other churches as a guest singer. “There’s hardly a church in the area that hasn’t had him,” said Sparks, who added that Goins also formerly was a drummer for The Harvesters, a nationally touring gospel quartet.
The wood-cutting accident is not the first medical crisis Goins has faced. He was stricken about 25 years ago with aplastic anemia, a condition in which bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells. This required treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and a bone marrow transplant from his sister.
Members of other churches are being asked to pray for Goins’ recovery, which Sparks is hopeful about based on what the injured man has overcome in the past.
“We are immensely proud of David Goins,” he said.
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