A cleaner in the United states has been taken to hospital after being sucked into a machine at a sausage-making company.

The accident happened as the man was cleaning the vacuum-type machine that is used to season the meat at DiLigui Sausage Company in Massachusetts.

Police said the man's head and shoulders became stuck in the machine after it somehow activated while being cleaned.

Police officer Carole Germano told The Salem News that the man — whose name was not released — was freed from the machine and showed no obvious sign of trauma, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.