A 70-year-old worker at a dumpling shop at Bukit Merah, accidentally got her arm stuck inside a meat marinating machine while preparing dumpling ingredients.
The incident happened at Hoo Kee Bak Chang at Block 161 Bukit Merah Central, on 24 August at about 2pm.
She was using the machine to marinate meat, and her right arm got caught and stuck inside the machine.
The manager couldn’t simply break the machine to free her arm so they called the SCDF.
The SCDF arrived at the scene and found her right arm trapped inside the machine, and a team of firefighters alongside the SCDF’s DART team then commenced an operation to free her arm.
They used cutting equipment to free her arm within an hour while a paramedic was on site monitoring her condition.
She was later sent to SGH conscious.
Disclaimer: Please note the top image of the meat marinating machine is one of many examples of what the machine looks like and isn’t the one used in the incident
Images source: Hoo Kee Bak Chang Amoy Street Facebook and Qingdao Tune Machinery