Boston Barber Stabs Himself In Freak Accident; Client, Colleagues Jump Into Action

BOSTON — A Beacon Hill barber is lucky to be alive after he accidentally stabbed himself in the chest with his own pair of shears. Steve Silva, 29, was cutting Max Cohen’s hair when he tripped and fell on top of the scissors.

“He was walking around the back of the chair and all of a sudden he’s on the floor. I look down and I see blood. He says ‘oh my God, I stabbed myself’ and pulls a set of scissors out of his chest,” Cohen said.

The freak accident happened last Friday, at Boston Barber & Tattoo Co.’s Bowdoin Street location and was captured by video surveillance. You can see Silva’s colleagues rush to his aid and Cohen run off frame to grab “something to help compress the wound.”

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