Worker’s trapped finger cut free

Firefighters spent 40 minutes cutting a shop assistant free from a till at Swedish furniture giant Ikea’s Wednesbury store.
They were called out to the Axletree Way complex last night to reports of a staff member with his finger stuck in one of the store’s 20-plus tills.
Acting Watch Commander Darren Kendall, of Wednesbury Fire Station, said that the design of the tills included a small aperture which was the source of the 20-year-old staff member’s woes.
“We had a gentleman with his  finger stuck in the removable drawer of a cash register,” he said.
“It was his middle finger that was stuck, and while his colleagues had tried using butter to get it out, the finger was swelling and something needed to be done.”
Mr Kendall said that his crew spent more than half an hour cutting the man free from the till drawer after they received an emergency call just after 8.30pm.
“The man was largely uninjured, apart from the swelling, but we had  an ambulance on standby just in case,” he added.


Firecrews said that there was no reason for the unlucky worker to be embarrassed about having his finger caught inside the till.

This article posted on August 4, 2007 at 9:16 am.
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8 Comments

  1. BB said: Aug 4th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    I bet he had no IKEA that was going to happen !

  2. mark said: Aug 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    LMAO. how can you get your finger stuck in a till. I can’t see how it is possible.

  3. jenny said: Aug 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am

    what an absolute idiot! i mean what was he doing with his middle finger in the till anyway!? who said he shouldnt be embarrassed? he should bury his head in shame! lol he should be named and shamed :)i’l b asking about this guy next time im in store hehe .

  4. lee said: Aug 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    how ridiculous i think the Ikea store should fire him just for being a complete embarrassment! if i were one of his colleagues i would have lmao. sack the silly sod!

  5. lorna said: Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

    his finger never got stuck in the till it got stuck in the rollers on the conveyor belt so 2 all the people trying to bad mouth him, in future get ya facts straight before you put people down.

  6. Dave Philips said: Aug 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    Someone should have told him to ‘pull his finger out’

  7. rick said: Aug 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Worker fingers cut Free.?. Normally nothing is free.Where you gone Dynamite,i miss U.

  8. Steve said: Oct 12th, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Lorna - get *your* facts straight and read the story before you comment!

    Unless, of course, YOU were the worker in question…