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123 S 5TH AVE E, MELROSE, MN 56352
Standard 52050710
Standard 19100147 C07 IIIA
Standard 19100147 D04 I
Standard 19100303 B01
Standard 19100147 C09
Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Barrel Dumper
At approximately 10:30 p.m. on February 2, 2006, Employee #1 was working at a tu rkey processing facility. He was standing inside the framework for a barrel dump er while helping clean out the pregrinder in the facility's bib-on room. He reac hed over and turned the switch on the barrel dumper. The mechanism started movin g up, and Employee #1 was caught between a support pole and the framework for th e dumper. He sustained crushing injuries to his chest and was killed.
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