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Default Worker Found Dead in Dough Machine at Texas Fortune Cookie Factory

On Thu, 01 May 2014 21:31:52 -0400, Travis McGee
> wrote:

>This reminds me of the eyeglass maker who fell into his lens grinding
>machine. He made quite a spectacle of himself...
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>Worker Found Dead in Dough Machine at Texas Fortune Cookie Factory
>
>By REUTERSMAY 1, 2014, 8:41 P.M. E.D.T.
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>AUSTIN, Texas — A 26-year-old worker at a fortune cookie factor died of
>multiple blunt trauma injuries after falling into a dough-mixing machine
>at a factory in Houston over the weekend, a medical examiner's office
>said on Thursday.
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>The victim, Elmer Oscar Barrera, worked at the Houston branch of the
>Wonton Food company, and his death has been ruled an accident, the
>Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said.
>
>Police had said the victim was found dead in the machine by a fellow
>worker on Sunday afternoon. Wonton Food is one of the biggest makers of
>fortune cookies in the United States.


Terrible way to die! Probably one of those big industrial horizontal
mixers!! Those things are very powerful and do NOT stop! :-(

John Kuthe...