Conn. first responders rescue worker trapped in machine

Crews used a tourniquet and rope rescue techniques to free and lower a South Windsor worker from the top of a canned beverage processing machine

December 11, 2025 10:59 AM

By Liz Hardaway
Journal Inquirer

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. — An employee’s arm became trapped inside a machine at a business in South Windsor on Wednesday morning, according to the South Windsor Fire Department.

The Fire Department said firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel were called to a business on Schweir Road around 9:50 a.m. for the incident. At the scene, Deputy Chief Jared Pelletier said the employee was on top of a canned beverage processing machine, about 18 feet off the ground.

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Pelletier said that, prior to personnel arriving, another employee on-site had “mostly freed the employee from the entrapment.”

South Windsor police Lt. Mark Cleverdon said the machine caused “bone deep lacerations on the hand and lower portion of the arm.”

First responders extricated the man from the machine, lowered him to the floor and applied a tourniquet at the scene, police and fire officials said. He then was taken to Hartford Hospital in stable condition.

Cleverdon said around 10:30 a.m. that the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, or OSHA, had been notified of the incident and was responding to the scene.

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