Woman crushed to death was pregnant

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/31/BABCUP0QG.DTL

Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, January 31, 2008

(01-30) 11:57 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco printing plant operator who was killed when a heavy-duty cutting machine crushed her was pregnant with her second child and had shared the news with co-workers hours earlier, rescue officials and relatives said Wednesday.

Margarita Mojica of Oakland, a 26-year-old employee of Digital Pre-Press International on the edge of Potrero Hill, was about four months into her pregnancy, said her younger sister, Maria Mojica.

Margarita Mojica emigrated from Mexico as a teenager and met her husband while working for another Bay Area printer. She had a 6-year-old daughter and had been looking forward to having a second child after suffering a miscarriage last year, her sister said.

"I feel terrible because I was so close to her. We were always together," said Maria Mojica, an Oakland resident who struggled to talk through tears. She said she had unanswered questions about whether the fetus could have been saved after her sister became entangled in the machine Tuesday morning and was crushed.

San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Lt. Mindy Talmadge said rescue workers could have done nothing for the fetus, given the early stage of Margarita Mojica's pregnancy and the massive head and chest trauma she suffered.

"She was deceased already when we arrived," Talmadge said. "It took a while even to extricate her."

FULL story at link.

[madrchsod]

1. i have no idea how that machine crushed her

but something went really wrong because there is no way those machines could crush her if they are bolted down or just the sheer weight. i worked in the printing industry.

<--this machine is`t on the website


while this one is


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