By Jon Schuppe
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
HARLEM — A 14-month-old Harlem boy was hurt Monday morning when he got both of his hands stuck in a household paper shredder, his grandmother said.
The boy was playing at home with family on West 149th Street when the accident happened at around 10 a.m., said the shaken grandmother, Olga De La Cruz.
Four fingers of his right hand and two of his left were caught in the shredder, which was a Staples Mailmate model. Unable to free him, his family called 911. Police arrived and used a screwdriver to get his fingers out. Then they drove the boy to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
His condition was not immediately available.
"I don't know how they did it. I couldn't watch," De La Cruz, 52, said of the police. "They did a wonderful job."
She added, "He has his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother watching him. He's starting to walk so we close all the bedroom doors and everything. But you would never imagine (it) would take the fingers."
