North Syracuse, N.Y. — Firefighters on Tuesday freed a worker’s hand from a dough roller in a cookie factory in North Syracuse, fire officials said.
She was doing maintenance on the machine before it turned on at the Corso’s Cookies warehouse on South Main Street, North Syracuse District Chief Casey Daugard said.
Firefighters were called to the factory at 4:35 p.m., Daugard said. Emergency crews spent the next 30 minutes disassembling the roller to free the woman’s hand, he said.
Her hand was crushed, Daugard said. She was taken to Upstate University Hospital by a NAVAC ambulance with a significant hand injury, Daugard said.
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