Firefighters save woman stuck in pizza dough machine in Arrowtown
A worker at Micky Finn's Irish Bar in Arrowtown had her fingers stuck in a pizza dough rolling machine for 20 minutes.
A woman screamed for 20 minutes after getting her fingers stuck in a pizza dough roller while her workmates tried to help using butter.
The worker at Micky Finn's Irish Bar in Arrowtown had to be hospitalised after the incident on Wednesday.
Firefighters from Arrowtown and Frankton were called to the bar on Ramshaw Lane at 9.30am to free the 23-year-old woman's hand from the machine.
Firefighters had to help free the woman's hand from the roller.
Bar worker Millie Dunn said she was on a break when she heard her co-worker scream from downstairs.
The woman's fingers were stuck up to her knuckles, with just a pinky finger left sticking out.
"It was quite grim," she said.
Dunn and baker Emna Ben Amara put butter on the woman's hand in an effort to free her from the machine before emergency services arrived.
"She was crying a lot. We were all there hugging her and she felt a bit better," Ben Amara said.
"I worked at the bakery for a long time and I know these type of things can happen.
"Unfortunately with this kind of machine you get used to using it and your attention can go down and it's typical when you get confident."
Dunn said all of Micky Finn's workers were trained to make pizza bases.
"It's just dough and you don't really need to be a baker. [The injured woman] normally does the bar but she was just helping out," Dunn said.
WorkSafe had been notified of the accident and was making inquiries, a spokesperson said.
- Stuff
