A street vendor's hand was crushed after getting stuck inside an electric rolling machine used to extract juice from sugarcane stalks.

Pimphon Yamsakun, 58, was preparing a customer's order when her fingers were sucked into the machine.

The shopkeeper screamed for help as her hand was then dragged into the metal rollers at her business in Ayutthaya, central Thailand on August 28.

Paramedics rushed to the shop and spent almost an hour removing her bleeding hand out of the machine.

The volunteers later transferred the woman to a nearby hospital where they stitched her wrist wounds.

The woman is in stable condition now but she will need to see specialists for treatment on her wrist and delicate finger bones.

Pimphon said: "I was shocked, everything happened so quickly. Working on the machine is new to me so I did not know what to do."

The vendor added that she recently bought the fruit pulping tool last week and had not been familiar with it yet.

She said that as soon as her wounds are recovered, she will fire up the machine to start making the sugarcane juice.

Pimphon added: ''This time I will learn how to operate it properly and I will be more careful.''

Fresh sugarcane juice is a popular drink sold at street stands around Thailand for as little as 20 baht (0.60usd) a bottle.