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<p>Brittiany Hart clears a table at the Coeur d'Alene Brewing Company during her shift Friday. Hart underwent nearly $30,000 of medical care after a run-in with a bobby pin in April that caused an infection which prompted an emergency surgery to save her arm and required intravenous antibiotics.</p>

<p>Brittiany Hart clears a table at the Coeur d'Alene Brewing Company during her shift Friday. Hart underwent nearly $30,000 of medical care after a run-in with a bobby pin in April that caused an infection which prompted an emergency surgery to save her arm and required intravenous antibiotics.</p>

June 4, 2010

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Heart to Hart
June 4, 2010 9 p.m.

Heart to Hart

Fundraiser for employee who almost lost arm after infection from pin

COEUR d'ALENE - It didn't really even hurt. Just a small prick where the pin punctured the skin in the webbing between the fingers on her left hand. "I didn't see it when I went to pick something up so it just jabbed me right there," said Brittiany Hart as she described what happened while she was cleaning her home on April 5.