Gibson reports the history of a girl of eight who was caught by her clothing in a perpendicular shaft in motion, and carried around at a rate of 150 or 200 times a minute until the machinery could be stopped.

Although she was found in a state of shock, she was anesthetized, in order that immediate attention could be given to her injuries, which were found to be as follows:-- (1) An oblique fracture of the middle third of the right femur.
(2) A transverse fracture of the middle third of the left femur.
(3) A slightly comminuted transverse fracture of the middle third of the left tibia and fibula.
(4) A transverse fracture of the lower third of the right humerus.
(5) A fracture of the lower third of the right radius.
(6) A partial radiocarpal dislocation.
(7) Considerable injuries of the soft parts at the seats of fracture, and contusions and abrasions all over the body.
During convalescence the little patient suffered an attack of measles, but after careful treatment it was found by the seventy-eighth day that she had recovered without bony deformity, and that there was bony union in all the fractures.

There was slight tilting upward in the left femur, in which the fracture had been transverse, but there was no perceptible shortening.
Hulke describes a silver-polisher of thirty-six who, while standing near a machine, had his sleeve caught by a rapidly-turning wheel, which drew him in and whirled him round and round, his legs striking against the ceiling and floor of the room.

It was thought the wheel had made 50 revolutions before the machinery was stopped.

After his removal it was found that his left humerus was fractured at its lower third, and apparently comminuted.