Woman falls into mean grinder, dies...

So, this man falls into the chopper at the fertilizer plant...killed immediately.
Foreman sends LeRoy over to tell his wife with the warning to be as easy with her as possible with the news.
LeRoy flies up in the yard with dust rolling, jumps outta the truck, runs up the steps and across the porch and pounds loudly on the door.
Lady at the door...Can I help you?
LeRoy...Is you da widow Jones?
Lady...No, I'm not.
LeRoy...Da Hell You Ain't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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That's just horrible.
 
Wifes uncle went into one at chatham foods back in the day. Railing broke while he was leaning on it. Someone seen him go in and hit the E stop. Lost one leg above knee and mangled the other. Bad deal for sure.
 
When I was with Carolina Air Care we went to a cement factory somewhere near Charlotte. This was early 90s. A guy fell into a cement auger. It broke everything from his mid-spine down: half of his lumbar spine, all of sacral, pelvis, and all leg bones. It tore off his genitalia, he had evisceration and massive open wounds. I have never seen a shark attack victim, but this is what I would have imagined. He died on the way to the OR at UNC.

I imagine this is similar, but much worse.
 
Chuckman said:
When I was with Carolina Air Care we went to a cement factory somewhere near Charlotte. This was early 90s. A guy fell into a cement auger. It broke everything from his mid-spine down: half of his lumbar spine, all of sacral, pelvis, and all leg bones. It tore off his genitalia, he had evisceration and massive open wounds. I have never seen a shark attack victim, but this is what I would have imagined. He died on the way to the OR at UNC.

I imagine this is similar, but much worse.
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I would definitely not want to be the FNG on that day.
 
A meat grinder would certainly fall into the classification of confined space. I would also think that with the hazards involved that it would be subject to serious lockout / tag out procedures before anyone goes anywhere that isn't a safe operating area. Then again, every corporation I worked for gave proper lip service to safety, at least until they get caught with a serious accident.
 
fishgutzy said:
How many safeties did she have to bypass to get there?

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You would be surprised proably how few there were seen it many times or bypassed for production. Some take it serious but some still do not along with no one has common sense these days.
 
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Safety bars must have been left open or removed.

 
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noway2 said:
A meat grinder would certainly fall into the classification of confined space. I would also think that with the hazards involved that it would be subject to serious lockout / tag out procedures before anyone goes anywhere that isn't a safe operating area. Then again, every corporation I worked for gave proper lip service to safety, at least until they get caught with a serious accident.
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Doubt it had confined space requirements if no one is going down in a machine. My guess someone was standing on a rolling steps either cleaning machine or clearing a jam in a way they were not supposed to be. Sanatation crews at these places are usually contract employees with high turn over rates.
 
Jp8819 said:
You would be surprised proably how few there were seen it many times or bypassed for production. Some take it serious but some still do not along with no one has common sense these days.
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Years ago, a guy where I used to work came up with a brilliant idea to score some worker's comp. He bypassed a bunch of safeties to take a snort or ARSINE gas. That's part of Arsenic. Gallium Arsenide.
He family filed a wrongful death suit and lost big time. All they had to do was lay out the steps required to access the gas output to show it was a suicide.
 
Jp8819 said:
You would be surprised proably how few there were seen it many times or bypassed for production. Some take it serious but some still do not along with no one has common sense these days.
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One of the places I worked, that gave lip service to safety, brought a production line back from Mexico. A girl was running one machine that supposedly had a light curtain to keep it from operating when someone's hand was in the equipment. Suffice it to say, she lost a finger. The subsequent investigation showed that while the light curtain appeared to be functional, the controls had been bypassed. It was also discovered that parts of the machine were held in place - quite literally - with chewed bubblegum.

This was also a place where a parts rack fell on a guy, leaving him permanently disabled and they had a leaking air handler that dripped water on the floor and their answer was to put a bucket under it until a woman slipped, fell and broke her elbow requiring surgery and major down time.

Don't get me started on some of the electrical hazards. While working for them, at times I had both hands in 480Vac service entrance equipment while standing in water.
 
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noway2 said:
One of the places I worked, that gave lip service to safety, brought a production line back from Mexico. A girl was running one machine that supposedly had a light curtain to keep it from operating when someone's hand was in the equipment. Suffice it to say, she lost a finger. The subsequent investigation showed that while the light curtain appeared to be functional, the controls had been bypassed. It was also discovered that parts of the machine were held in place - quite literally - with chewed bubblegum.

This was also a place where a parts rack fell on a guy, leaving him permanently disabled and they had a leaking air handler that dripped water on the floor and their answer was to put a bucket under it until a woman slipped, fell and broke her elbow requiring surgery and major down time.

Don't get me started on some of the electrical hazards. While working for them, at times I had both hands in 480Vac service entrance equipment while standing in water.
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Seen it many times as well with many safety systems misapplied such as light curtains to close to hazards and guards removed or bypassed. I was at a well known corporate customer one day to look in a panel, I see the rotary disconnect handle locked out with 3 lockout hasp on the out side of the enclosure to open the door where their should have been a breaker that handle was hooked to and the breaker and shaft had been removed and the wires of each phase sticking out loose and were tied together hot wiring it with large wire nuts. I decided to leave that facilty rather quickly after pointing it out to the employee and sales guy I was working with at the time.
 
Chuckman said:
When I was with Carolina Air Care we went to a cement factory somewhere near Charlotte. This was early 90s. A guy fell into a cement auger. It broke everything from his mid-spine down: half of his lumbar spine, all of sacral, pelvis, and all leg bones. It tore off his genitalia, he had evisceration and massive open wounds. I have never seen a shark attack victim, but this is what I would have imagined. He died on the way to the OR at UNC.

I imagine this is similar, but much worse.
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Have you forgotten how to speak ENGLISH???
 
A family friend died in a grain auger accident when I was a teenager. He was sitting in it, at the top, working on it, when someone below fired it up. Took his legs off so high there was no way to apply a tourniquet & he bled out before the chopper could get there.

There was a chick my dad's age where I grew up that lost an arm above the elbow in the meat grinder at her dad's meat packing business. She was a (not very good) petty thief & general POS & known as 'Connie the One-armed Bandit' around town.
 
Had guy on the reach truck at my home depot store, he did not have any safety gates in place, lifted a pallet of Bounty to bring to the floor,
my coworker who did the inventory with the mobile cart was in the opposite aisle, (again lazy no gates in place), the pallet of bounty hit
a pallet of fan rakes (never should have been in the racking "DO NOT PLACE IN OVERHEAD RACK" on all four sides.
Pallet of rakes fall to the floor, hitting my friend in the right leg, protruding fractures and lots of blood.
Lucky another coworker was in the reserves and was medic certified, she got bleeding under control. Out of work for nine months,
back for three then out for two because the titanium rods were right on the nerve. Removed and his leg was saved but some discomfort in damp weather.
They fired that idiot who was also the lift equipment trainer.
 
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Then there was the guy who got sucked into the commercial wood chipper. :eek:
 
Yeah not on my list of ways to go....
Has a fellow in PA have a sudden end involving a combine.....the biggest piece we found was one of his femurs that bound up the machine.

I have to wonder who gets the job of cleaning the machine after this incident and who makes the decision to keep using that particular unit.
 
If I were the one to open that grinder up after I heard some strange noises...I’d need some liquid calming agent.
 
Bailey Boat said:
Have you forgotten how to speak ENGLISH???
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Loosely translated:

It tore him in half like something out of “Predator meets Jaws and they had a baby”, he had guts hanging out, was missing his junk, and died on the way to the hospital because the poor bastard didn’t die sooner.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
So, this man falls into the chopper at the fertilizer plant...killed immediately.
Foreman sends LeRoy over to tell his wife with the warning to be as easy with her as possible with the news.
LeRoy flies up in the yard with dust rolling, jumps outta the truck, runs up the steps and across the porch and pounds loudly on the door.
Lady at the door...Can I help you?
LeRoy...Is you da widow Jones?
Lady...No, I'm not.
LeRoy...Da Hell You Ain't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reminds me of:

Guess who drownded in the lake today. Dugah Dugah.
 
I had a probationer doing community service at the dump about 20 years ago. He was behind a 10 ft tall concrete barrier when a skid steer bumped it over on him. It looked like a pig split right down the middle for a pig pickin. We stopped using the dump for community service after that.
 
I will say as bad as that incident is I think I would rather go in a meat grinder vs the guy that was trapped in and cooked to death at the bumble bee tuna facility years ago.
 
Jp8819 said:
I will say as bad as that incident is I think I would rather go in a meat grinder vs the guy that was trapped in and cooked to death at the bumble bee tuna facility years ago.
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Every now and then you will hear about accidents at the charcoal factory back home. Nope not taking that job.
 
My father worked at a metal stamping plant where pieces were cleaned in an acid bath before welding. A worker's clothes got caught by a hook and he was dragged through the acid bath.
 
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