In spite of all our differences, the one thing that binds all living creatures is that we each have an expiration date. This finality to our existence is what makes life special, something to be cherished and protected. But occasionally things can go terribly wrong…
Apr
16th
Author: Taz |
Files under Casualties: Low, Work Accidents
A city worker is dead after a horrible accident in Tustin, California. The man was trimming trees last Wednesday when he fell into a wood chipper.
The Los Angeles Times identified the victim as Gabriel Gonzales-Ferrer, 24. The man was “was standing at the back end of the chipper, throwing branches into it with his co-workers nearby,” Tustin police Sgt. Pat Welch told the newspaper. “One of them looked over, and he was gone.”
Safety inspectors are investigating the incident as an industrial accident. Thirty-one people have been killed in wood chipper accidents between 1992 and 2002, according to a 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association report.
Apr 17, 2008 at 11:14:08
Is that a photo from the movie Fargo? Dude, that’s sick!