NORTH READING — The North Reading Fire Department extricated a United States Postal Service employee whose hand became stuck in a piece of mail sorting machinery at a postal facility.
At 11:23 p.m. on Monday, June 15, North Reading Fire was dispatched to the United States Postal Service Middlesex/Essex Processing and Distribution Center, located at 76 Main St., for report of a woman with her hand caught in a machine.
North Reading Engine 3 and Ambulance 2, staffed by Captain Brian Nash and North Reading Firefighters Nick Carney, Matthew Enos, Chris O’Hara and Bridget Leahy, arrived within minutes and found a 60-year-old woman with her hand stuck between the conveyor belt of a sorting machine and a metal sorting tray.
Crews carefully cut and disassembled parts of the conveyor belt and metal frame, and were able to free the victim after about 30 minutes.
She was taken by Burlington ambulance to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington for treatment. Captain Nash, the incident commander on scene, praised the work of firefighters late Monday evening.
“As firefighters, we train for all manner of technical rescue and extrication, and our firefighters relied on the tools of the trade and fell back on their training to conduct a safe and successful rescue,” Captain Nash said.
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