SEATTLE – A 22-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital Friday after her arm was caught in a noodle-making machine at her workplace on Capitol Hill.
Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene, a noodle cafe in the 400 block of Broadway East, at about 12:15 p.m. after a call came in about the accident.
The woman was still conscious and alert when medics arrived, the Seattle Fire Department said in a tweet.
A technical rescue team had to use specialized tools to free the woman’s arm, which had been pierced by a metal shaft. She was then taken to Harborview Medical Center.
It was the second day in a row that someone’s arm had become entangled in industrial equipment at a Seattle workplace.
On Thursday, a 55-year-old man lost his arm in an industrial accident at a fortune cookie factory in Seattle’s International District, officials said
Curt Isakson is a 35 year veteran of the fire service. Curt is currently a Battalion Chief for Escambia County Fire Rescue. Previously worked 9 years with the Pensacola Fire Department where he was assigned as the Company Officer on Rescue 31. Curt’s fire service experiences started at a young age as a Junior firefighter with the Midway Fire Protection District and rose through the ranks to Captain. He has worked in volunteer, career, and combination departments.
Curt has held all ranks up to Battalion Chief and been assigned to operations, training, inspections, and was Chief of Special Operations for 7 years. Curt owns and operates County Fire Tactics that covers a very diverse range of fire service topics, as well as Firefighter Rescues, a site that documents rescues made by firefighters around the country.
He has annual contracts with numerous departments to provide standardized monthly training for these departments that respond daily together under an automatic aid agreement. Curt teaches nationally to include; FDIC, Firehouse Expo, Firehouse World, Orlando Fire Conference, Atlanta Fire Conference, Bowling Green State University, and owns/operates the annual HROC, COBC, WOTF, CFT ODP on Pensacola Beach. He is a Florida Certified Fire Officer, Instructor, Inspector, Arson, and FLUSAR.
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