Postal worker hospitalized after getting trapped in sorting machine at North Reading facility

A late-night emergency at a North Reading postal facility ended with a successful rescue after a worker’s hand became trapped in machinery.

Firefighters were called to the United States Postal Service Middlesex/Essex Processing and Distribution Center on Main Street just before 11:30 p.m. Monday for reports of a woman stuck in a machine.

When firefighters arrived, they found a 60-year-old postal employee with her hand caught between a conveyor belt and a metal sorting tray…

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