Crime & Safety
Worker Airlifted After ‘Severe’ Industrial Accident
The man was pulled into a lathe when his clothing snagged in the machinery, authorities said.
An employee at an Arrow Road business was airlifted to Hackensack University Medical Center after he was dragged through a machine he was working with Friday afternoon, authorities said.
The 43-year-old man was working with a lathe at Leem Filtration at about 12:45 p.m. Friday when “a piece of his clothing [got] caught in the lathe, dragging him into the machine,” Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney said.
The man suffered a compound fracture to one of his arms, a “severe” back injury and a head injury, Gurney said.
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The man was treated on the scene by Ramsey Ambulance and Valley Hospital paramedics, police said. Ramsey Ambulance transported the man to the Mac Farran Field parking lot, where a medevac helicopter transported him to HUMC.
His condition was unknown as of 4 p.m. Friday.
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