Dive summary:

• After forgetting her keys, a drunk woman in Chelsea, New York decided to get into her apartment through the garden which she could only get to via the garbage chute; instead of getting to the garden she fell and got stuck in the trash compactor.
• The woman was stuck wedged in the compactor for 45 minutes, her arm only dangling from her body before the FDNY could release the compactor.
• The woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition after she was released.

From the article:

A Chelsea woman had her arm nearly severed after she plunged head-first through an apartment garbage chute and became trapped inside the building’s trash compactor, fire officials and neighbors said.

Emergency workers arrived at the grisly scene at W. 21 St. about 5:50 a.m. on Saturday. They found 30-year-old Margaret Baumer conscious, with her feet dangling in the air, sources and neighbors said.

Baumer, who fell into the chute on the ground floor, was trapped in the hydraulic-powered compactor for at least 45 minutes. ...