Mom was there

Two-year-old reaches into meat grinder: seriously injured

It happened as it always does when small children have an accident at home - the parents didn't look for a moment. This time, the accident happened in Pierbach in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, where little Niklas reached into the meat grinder with his hand and was seriously injured.

Niklas' 30-year-old mother from the Freistadt district was busy making breadcrumbs from old toast on Sunday morning. To do this, she had placed the electric meat grinder on a mobile platform and filled it with dried bread.

Reaching into the opening
The mincer was already running when the two-year-old boy climbed onto the platform in an unobserved moment and reached into the filling opening with his right hand. He touched the rotating auger with his fingers and the auger caught his ring and middle finger, tearing off a fingertip. The mother immediately helped her child, stopped the mincer and called the emergency services. After receiving emergency medical treatment, the boy was taken by rescue helicopter to the accident hospital in Linz.