A 30-year-old Anderson man who had his left hand severed in a home-repair accident at his father’s Elkmont home June 29, and two of his children were seriously injured in a one-car accident on Ala. 99 late Tuesday night.

On Wednesday afternoon Ronald Berzett, of 8939 Tommy Hill Road, Anderson, was listed in “fair” condition, and his children, Krislynn, 10, and Dustin, 5, were both listed in “serious” condition in the Huntsville Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

The three were airlifted by two MedFlight helicopters from the scene after the 9:30 p.m. accident.

Athens-Limestone Ambulance Service Director Mike West said an ambulance was dispatched to the scene. But he said when paramedics arrived they called for Medflight to assist.

State troopers were investigating the cause of the wreck Wednesday.

West said it appeared that Berzett lost control and his car left the road and crashed near the Lauderdale County line, just past Lester Road.

The account of Berzett’s horrific June 29 accident in which his hand was severed was widely circulated by news organizations and wire services throughout the state.

Berzett’s three children, which also include Alex, 14, were lauded by rescue workers and their grandfather, Don Berzett, for their bravery the day of the accident.

The younger Berzett, a welder by trade, had been helping his father cut overhead panels for the sunroom of his Elkmont Rural Village home when the accident happened. Berzett was apparently concentrating on a line out ahead of the blade of a radial arm saw instead of on the blade. The blade sliced through his arm, severing his hand.

Don Berzett, applied a pressure hold to Ron’s arm as his cleanly severed hand lay on the plate of a nearby radial arm saw.

“He was hollering and screaming for help, sitting on the floor and holding his arm,” said the elder Berzett in a July 5 News Courier story. “He’s about to pass out, and I’m holding his arm with one hand while talking to the 911 dispatcher with the other.”

He sent his 5-year-old grandson, Dustin, who is to be a kindergartner at West Limestone this fall, into the house to get help while he continued to take instructions from the dispatcher.

The two girls, Krislynn and Alex, placed their injured father’s severed hand in a plastic bag and a rapid responder rescue worker soon arrived and put the hand on ice. Berzett was flown by MedFlight to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, where his hand was reattached in nine hours of microsurgery.

Berzett was released from Vanderbilt four days later able to wiggle the fingers of his reattached left hand. With blood flow restored to 95 percent and oxygen levels at 93 percent, surgeons were unsure if Berzett would regain full use of the hand.