By Abigail Roberts
A two-year-old girl was airlifted from Crab Orchard this morning after being extricated from a piece of farm machinery.
Crab Orchard Fire Chief Larry Owsley said it was about 8:55 a.m. Feb. 13 when firefighters responded to Main Street for a farm machinery entanglement.
“A two-year-old got her arm caught in the power take-off of a corn grinder,” Owsley said.
Firefighters used the jaws of life, eventually cutting the machinery around the child’s arm. The extrication took about 15-to-20 minutes, he said.
An Air Evac unit landed at about 9:30 a.m. The child was transported, with part of the machinery still on her arm, to the University of Kentucky for immediate surgery.
Owsley said her arm received extensive damage but she was stable.
“Thank God she is going to be OK, but she had serious damage to her arm and hand,” Owsley said.
The Crab Orchard Fire Department was assisted on scene by the Lincoln County Fire Department and Stanford Fire Department, as well as Lincoln County EMS, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Constable Mike Mullins.
