A video camera captured the gruesome death of a Guatemalan immigrant who was sucked into a dough-mixing machine at a Brooklyn tortilla factory Monday.
Juan Baten, 22, was fatally crushed when one of his arms got caught in the waist-high tub at the Tortilleria Chinantla factory on Grand St. in
Williamsburg.
"I'm still in shock," said widow Rosario Ramirez, fighting tears as she described how Baten toiled at the minimum-wage job to support their 7-month-old daughter and his four brothers in Guatemala.
A surveillance video showed Baten repeatedly reached into the machine to press the dough and speed up the mixing, cop sources said.
At one point, he reached too far down and his arm was snagged on one of the mixer's rotating blades.
The machine then pulled him inside the large vat, and the mechanical arms crushed his head and chest, sources said.
The medical examiner ruled it an accident, but the NYPD and Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.
OSHA said it had no record of prior violations. State records show the company failed a health inspection in June but passed a followup in October.
Via: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/young-guatemalan-immigrant-crushed-death-fall-mixer-brooklyn-tortilla-factory-article-1.149379#ixzz2YaQjf000
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