A Noise From Meat Grinder, Then a Horrifying Scene

Newser ^ | 04/24/2019 | By Arden Dier, Newser Staff

[Responsibility2nd]

(Newser) – "This was a horrible accident" seems an understatement considering how a plant worker died Monday in Pennsylvania. Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said 35-year-old Jill Greninger fell or was pulled to her death inside a large commercial meat grinder she was operating at Economy Locker Storage Co. in Pennsdale around 11:40am, per PennLive and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Greninger, who died instantly of massive trauma, was standing on a rolling staircase "as she was perhaps reaching for something in the grinder, which was about 6 feet off the ground," Kiessling said. A fellow employee heard a noise and went to investigate, turning off the machine before calling for help.

This is the first reported death at the facility, which has been in business since the early 1900s, per WNEP. PennLive describes Economy Locker Storage Co. as a wholesale meat-processing business, with products sold under the brand Country Store. "Everyone is shaken and thinks that this is a tragedy that something like this had to happen to such a young lady," a neighbor tells WNEP. "My heart goes out to everyone who is affected by this." Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators have been to the scene, where firefighters spent 45 minutes breaking down the meat grinder so Greninger's body could be recovered. (Earlier this year, a worker in Michigan fell into a vat of acid.)

[raybbr]

Or long hair.

[Zhang Fei]

[I know what you are saying but having worked production at my plant, it’s more like the employee ignoring safety procedures and taking a short cut........ ]

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Given that any serious accident involves the plant getting dinged by the Feds, could cost millions and perhaps even get the plant closed down, on top of the personal consequences to anyone injured or killed, I’d say anyone who ignores safety procedures around heavy machinery really needs to be in a different line of work, perhaps one where the major occupational hazard is paper cuts.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Isadora Duncan

Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, pulling her from the open car and breaking her neck.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan#Death

[kabar]

Falling into a meat grinder is a horrible, very rare accident. The toll of terrorist acts is small compared to the systematic, state approved killing of innocents inside the womb every day. 42 million abortions are carried out annually worldwide with about 650,000 in the US.

The regularized, legal murder of human life is far more insidious and horrible than the examples you cite. And it rarely makes the news.

[Fightin Whitey]

You cheapen the lives and deaths of others with your pointless comparison, including those of the unborn.

[trebb]

What that old saying about sausage?

I think it goes: He who makes quips about the tragic death of another human, who had loved ones, has sausage for brains...

[VietVet876]

OK, that was bad on my part. Maybe it was scrapple.

[kabar]

Not pointless at all. Nor did I “cheapen” the life of the unfortunate person who died a horrible death. The point is that all lives matter including the lives of the unborn. They die anonymously without notice or concern, sometimes horribly. Their lives are cheapened because their murder is sanctioned by the state.

The poor woman who died in the meat grinder was accorded far more dignity, sympathy, and recognition than an unborn child who had its spinal chord cut and skull pierced and organs sold. That’s the sad reality. Just ask Governor Northam of Virginia.