MoCo Worker Hospitalized After Arm Becomes Trapped Inside Industrial Mixer

ROCKVILLE, MD — A special trauma team was deployed to an Omega 3 Nutrition shop in Rockville on Thursday after a worker became trapped in industrial machinery.

Pete Piringer, spokesperson with the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said first responders were alerted to the shop on the 1300 block of East Gude Drive around 3:30 p.m.

At the scene, authorities found an employee whose hand and arm were trapped inside what Piringer described as an "industrial mixer/roller."

Officials couldn't extricate the individual until just before 5 p.m. After removal, they were promptly transported from the site by medevac helicopter.

During the emergency response, Montgomery College's Rockville campus was identified as a landing site. Rockville City Police temporarily closed roads in the immediate area.

Authorities have not released additional details on the case.