(Paraphrasing the article linked below)
In Corvallis, Oregon on March 15, 21 year old Jordyn Martin was cleaning an ice cream machine with a rag when, suddenly, the machine’s rotor wrapped around the rag, dragging it and her hand in and ripping 3 of her fingers off.
Her, her coworker, Emily Kilpatrick, and their manager, Abigail Thomas, all quit immediately afterwards. Emily, who bravely accepted the task of retrieving the fingers from the machine in an attempt to have them reattached, said this of the incident: “The rag had pulled her hand in, so that rag wrapped around her fingers and pulled her fingers off until there was pummeled bone and blood all inside of the machine,” Kilpatrick said. “The fingers were wrapped in the mangled rag.”
Unfortunately, her fingers were so mangled that they were unable to be reattached. Their manager (Thomas) who closed the store down and rushed Jordyn to a hospital, said, “There was blood splatter all over the store, including the remnants of the fingers.”
The now former Cold Stone manager (Thomas) also said: “We were never trained on safety protocols at this Cold Stone… the few times that our bosses came out, they just told us that our stores looked great. We didn’t know that the machine we were using was even capable of doing something like that. We thought it was completely safe to use and to clean, even when running.”
And as for the response from her bosses: “They didn’t even ask if she was OK first,” Thomas said. “Their follow-up question was basically: ‘Who are you going to get in to reopen the store?’”
To top it all off: In addition to their safety concerns, the former employees said they also had ethical issues with serving customers ice cream from the same machine that severed Martin’s fingers. “They’re still serving ice cream out of the machine after sanitizing it,” Kilpatrick (the coworker) said.
An Oregon spokesperson for OSHA said there’s an active investigation related to an “amputation incident” therefore not many details can be shared. The parent company for Cold Stone, Kahala Brands, also said they were aware and are “investigating further.”
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/corvallis-cold-stone-creamery-employee-loses-3-fingers-at-work/amp/