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Worker decapitated in chicken factory after being sucked into machine
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| 5 Dec 2010
| Richard Shears
Posted on 12/05/2010 4:31:02 PM PST by mandaladon
A man has been decapitated in a horrific accident at a chicken processing factory in Melbourne, Australia.
Mr Sarel Singh, 34, was killed instantly when he was sucked into a machine and decapitated in an incident that has now placed the entire poultry processing industry under review.
The factory was already under investigation over claims of unlawful and unethical treatment of its majority migrant workforce, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline programme reported.
Mr Singh's brother, Harry, said that Sarel had migrated from India four years ago 'in the hope of finding a better life in Australia'.
But Sarel had told his brother, who lives in India, that his job at the Melbourne factory was 'hell' and he was planning to return home.
'He used to say that life working at that place was like hell.
'He said it's a very hard job and he was tired of it.
'But due to the burden of the loans and debts over here and in Australia too, he had to work over there and he was struggling hard.'
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KEYWORDS: australia; cheaplabor; immigrants; immigration; mishap; napl; workplaceaccident
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To: I_be_tc
I agree. Very sad. My prayers for his family. this is horrific.
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posted on
12/05/2010 4:53:07 PM PST
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: I_be_tc
How sad.Are you talking about the death or this disgusting comment thread?
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posted on
12/05/2010 4:54:24 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
To: mandaladon
Tragic. What a terrible way to go for him and his family.
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posted on
12/05/2010 4:55:15 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: mandaladon
To: mandaladon
It's Shake-N-Bake...And I helped!
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:01:08 PM PST
by
BigCinBigD
(Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: mandaladon
What would your comment have been had it been Brittany Spears that was sucked into the machine?
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:05:53 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
To: BfloGuy
To: struwwelpeter
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> “And everything under maintenance or being sanitized should have been “locked out/tagged out” before he got close to it.”
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! ! ! ! ! !
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:09:29 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
To: struwwelpeter
Being the victim was working in a packaging area it could have been a banding/strapping machine. Those flat plastic straps that are wrapped around boxes for shipping. I also have worked a few slaughter houses and meat processing plants and can't think of a machine in a chicken plant that a person could be sucked into.
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:11:22 PM PST
by
4yearlurker
(I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
To: struwwelpeter
lock out/tag out might be a revolutionary concept in Australia...
To: tumblindice
fowl play?The chik-fil-a cows were seen fleeing the scene.
To: editor-surveyor
What would your comment have been had it been Brittany Spears that was sucked into the machine?
I am never eating chicken again
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:15:45 PM PST
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: mandaladon
Some pretty tasteless comments on this thread...Imagine if it were one of your loved ones.
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:16:28 PM PST
by
Celtic Cross
(I AM the Impeccable Hat. (AKA The Pope's Hat))
To: mandaladon
Mr Sarel Singh, 34, was killed instantly when he was sucked into a machine and decapitated in an incident that has now placed the entire poultry processing industry under review. The factory was already under investigation over claims of unlawful and unethical treatment of its majority migrant workforce, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline programme reported.
Why review the entire industry? Why not just go after the owner/managers of this one factory that obviously was not adhering to the labor/safety regulations already in place?
May God comfort his family, in any case.
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:20:01 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: mandaladon
Sad story, industrial accidents happen everywhere but buying it getting your head ripped off in a chicken plant is not on anybodies list of good ways to go. My his soul find the rest he sought in life.
To: mandaladon
To: driftdiver
Now that is nasty, but funny....LOL
To: struwwelpeter
I sure hope no one tell the muzzies about this machine, they'll start buying them up and decapitate in an express line..
To: mandaladon
Helpdesk-flag-at-half-mast-today-but-KFC-running-a-2-for-1-coupon-sale-in-Sydney ping.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/05/2010 5:38:47 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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