Quick-thinking Subway worker performs Heimlich maneuver on choking customer
This past Sunday evening was not business as usual for a local Subway employee, as she rescued a customer who was choking.
Danielle Sink, who works at the Hillsboro Subway restaurant on North High Street, said that she was nearing the end of her shift Sunday evening when she and her coworker, Stephanie, heard a senior citizen customer coughing.
Sink said that the man approached the counter, motioning for help, and the two workers realized he was turning purple.
Sink said that they called 911, but her coworker told her that they were going to have to perform the Heimlich maneuver in order to rescue the man.
The Heimlich maneuver is an emergency technique for preventing suffocation when a person's airway (windpipe) becomes blocked by a piece of food or other object.
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Sink, who said she had no first aid training, managed to successfully perform the Heimlich maneuver, and in the process, saved the man's life.
"It was something else, that's for sure," Sink said. "Afterward, I was in tears, he was a little frantic, and we just gave each other a hug and he thanked me.
"Anyone would have done it. I don't consider myself a hero or anything … it just had to be done," she said.
(Special HCP thanks to Mr. Steve Stapleton for this news tip.)