Woman freed after being trapped in meat grinder in southwest Sydney

A woman has been freed after her arm was trapped in a meat grinder in Sydney’s southwest for more than five hours.

The women whose arm was trapped (face blurred, on right) is wheeled out of the bakery by paramedcis. Picture: TNV

A woman has been freed after her arm was trapped in a meat grinder in Sydney’s southwest for more than five hours.
About 1pm NSW Ambulance paramedics raced to a business on Rose St, Liverpool after reports a woman had become trapped in a meat grinding machine.

There, a woman in her 40s was found with her arm stuck in the machine and significant injuries to her hand.
Paramedics stabilised the woman and sedated her before Fire and Rescue crews began a “very intricate and complex rescue” to extract her arm, according to FRNSW Superintendent Greg Wright.

“Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment and disentangled the patient over a number of hours,” Supt Wright said.

Shocked onlookers watch paramedics and police work on the woman. Picture: TNV

“Doctors and medical staff applied seduation to allow firefighters to remove her arm from the equipment.”

The woman was finally completely freed from the equipment by 6:30pm, five and a half hours after the incident began.

Emergency services rushed to help the woman. {Picture: TNV

She was then flown to Royal North Shore Hospital, where she remaisn in a stable condition with serious injuries to her arm.

It is not yet known how the woman’s arm became trapped.

Police were seen speaking to bystanders out the front of the shop, with paramedics comforting several distressed women nearby.