Brodie Davis is lucky to be alive after the glass door of his family’s washing machine shattered during a freak accident in his face.
His mother, Amie McCarthy, said she “nearly fainted” when she looked down and saw her 15-month-old son standing there with a piece of his finger “hanging on by a thread” and covered in blood.
“I turned around, Brodie was to my left, and he was covered in blood,” the 29-year-old mother of five said. “It was dripping all over him. He was screaming and crying.”
McCarthy took to Facebook to share the frightening experience that left her son dripping with blood.
After what began as a normal day for her, she put in half a load of laundry. Moments after she walked away she heard a loud noise like glass shattering. Initially she thought it was a window.
“I had a full on break down and started to look what it was,” she said after discovering her son had blood on him.
“I then started to see where all this blood was from and seen a thing hanging off his finger. I honestly thought it was glass off the machine so went to pull it out only to realise it was the tip of his finger hanging off.”
She rushed Brodie to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England where he was treated for injuries to his eye, neck, arms, hands, and feet. He also had to undergo emergency surgery on his finger.
“The skin had started dying by then so they were trying to save the skin,” McCarthy said. “They reattached the finger. And we still don’t know if he might need another operation for a skin graft.”
Although the tip of the toddler’s finger will likely be numb for the rest of his life, his injuries could have been a lot worse due to the large pieces of glass.
McCarthy claimed the washing machine, which was about 16 months old, was not overloaded nor overheated, and she did not place anything metal in the machine. While she did not name the manufacturer, McCarthy wants to warn others about the possibility of an exploding washing machine door.
“I think it could be a fault with that washing machine. [The company] needs to look into it, it can’t be safe. You never think your washing machine is going to do that.”
As for now, the manufacturer has been alerted to the freak accident, but McCarthy says she has not been offered “an apology or anything” as of yet.
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