Worker Trimming Trees Falls Into Wood Chipper, Dies

[babylonsister]

Now I know where that expression, 'a fate worse than death', comes from. :(

Worker Trimming Trees Falls Into Wood Chipper, Dies

Thursday, April 10, 2008



Apr. 9: A city worker is dead after an accident in Inglewood, Calif. The man was trimming trees on 80th Street when he fell into a wood chipper.

A city worker died after falling into a wood chipper while trimming trees in Inglewood, Calif., MyFOXLA.com reported.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the incident as an industrial accident, the station reported.

They are looking for people who may have seen the accident.

The victim was not identified, the station reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348990,00.html

[shaniqua6392]

1. Dear God!

How absolutely horrific. His poor family too.

[MadAndy]

2. I can think of several hundred better ways to die.

[backscatter712]

3. Ouch.

Hopefully, he fell in head-first - the end comes much quicker that way...

[Jed Dilligan]

4. "Feet first through the woodchipper" is a catchphrase I used to use

for people I really, really didn't like.

[Warpy]

5. They'll have to check DNA

A CSI acquaintance of mine worked one of those sites. He said the remains looked like Spaghetti-Os.

There really won't be anything to bury, in other words.

[dysfunctional press]

7. maybe he can be mulched instead?

:shrug:

[backscatter712]

12. In other words, he goes to the morgue in the shop-vacc...

Chunky salsa!!!

[Cleita]

6. This used to happen all the time in northwest timber mills.

Usually, it was a worker on graveyard shift that would fall into the chipper and die. Most of the mills have been shut down now and unfortunately the jobs that went with them are gone. Even though jobs in the lumber industry are dangerous, the lumber barons try to keep their Republican politicians in office so that very little regulation is signed into law to make the jobs safer. Since this happened in Inglewood, a minority neighborhood may I add, I hope some light gets shed on this very dangerous machinery.

[dysfunctional press]

13. and it's also very possible that the workers didn't always "fall" into the chippers...

fragging can happen in the civilian world too...and anyone from would-be whistleblowers & union organizers to suspected homosexuals, blacks, anyone seen as any kind of reformer, non-conformer, or otherwise undesirable could have been disappeared from the earth extremely effectively with one of those industrial-grade devices.

and when the revolution comes- maybe we could use them as our "guillotine".

who'd be up for having the entire pennsylvania avenue street crew fed feet-first and one-at-a-time into one on national television?

and...here's a GREAT possibility to record it for posterity- instead of coffins for each of the condemned, frame a large piece of canvas(eight feet square or so?) and direct the ejection shoot of the chipper at that person's canvas when they are fed in...dry'em off & hang'em up in a specially made wing of the national gallery, and charge 5 bucks just to see'em.

yeah...that's the ticket.

[babylonsister]

15. You're a sick puppy...

with a vivid imagination. ;)

[ben_meyers]

8. Marge Gunderson said:

"Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf... Well, that passed. Now I'm hungry again."

[Marrah_G]

9. Here is a story for you........

My guy has worked at Logan for Delta for 25+ years.

My guy was having lunch with his two friends. They have all worked together for 25+ years. Once lunch was over they headed back to work. My guy had to go get his hat and gloves from his locker (very bad NE winter day). The first friend went ahead by a few minutes. His friend asked him if he wanted him to wait and my guy said... " nah, you go, I'll catch up".

My guy came around the corner onto the tarmac and saw blood, body parts...and a head...

The first friend had run over the second friend with the de-icing machine in the few minutes it took for my guy to go to his locker.

I can still hear his voice when he called that morning.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2004/12/06/daily12.html

[babylonsister]

14. That's really sad. I also recall the story of the guy who got

sucked into an airplane engine and lived to tell about it.
My guy also works for an airline, and know how freaky some accidents are.

[CANDO]

10. Wasn't there a wood chipper scene in Fargo?

And now that I mentioned Fargo, what the hell is the women saying in the clip that Stephanie Miller always plays? It starts with "I'm just.....stinking or thinking with a......??? That kills me evey time I hear it because I can't tell what she is saying.

[pansypoo53219]

11. happened last year here.

with a rented one. once you get caught. you are toast. the only problem i had with Fargo. wouldn't see any foot.