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dulouz
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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: Wood chipper victim identified |
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Wood chipper victim identified
The man killed Tuesday in a Pleasant Prairie wood chipper accident has been identified as Jeremiah Sanders, 30, of Kenosha.
According to the Pleasant Prairie police, Sanders, who owned J's Quality Tree Service, was pulled into and through a wood chipper after trying to free a jammed log with his foot around 5:20 p.m.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration would only say that it is investigating the accident
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Nasty.
....and I was just going to have some lunch... |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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I watched _Silence of the Lambs_ last night.
sweet nostalgia
"it puts the lotion in the bucket" |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Darwin awards anyone? |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting stuff. I just read about a guy whose shirt got stuck in a tobacco cutting machine in a field and was pulled in yesterday. Then I read about a truck holding 60 puppies that caught on fire and killed every last one of them! |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Not too smrt.
p.s. I doubt a woman would ever stick her foot into a wood chipper--even one from N.Ontario |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
Not too smrt.
p.s. I doubt a woman would ever stick her foot into a wood chipper--even one from N.Ontario |
Exactly. Women tend to confine their stupidity to putting their hand down the stuck kitchen garbage disposal, only losing several digits. Whereas men are stoopid, stoopid. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a hideous story. Reminds me of "Fargo". I wonder if he could've reached the off button or if he immediately went into shock or something. How awful...... |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting stuff. I just read about a guy whose shirt got stuck in a tobacco cutting machine in a field and was pulled in yesterday. Then I read about a truck holding 60 puppies that caught on fire and killed every last one of them! |
What horrible terrible no-good news site do you read? I don't get that kind of carnage on the BBC. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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This article is from a local newspaper.
The man was pulled in by one leg. He likely had one foot on the ground, much like you are compacting a garbage can with one foot. He witnessed his leg going in and then went the rest of the way from the pubal area up. He was awake for most of it.
This is worse than Fargo. I'm pretty certain he guy in Fargo was dead already. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Interesting that they stress the point that the victim was identified. He was _identified_.
I mean, isn't the grisly, freakish death itself what's most newsworthy here?
Or might this have been a follow-up to an earlier article that we didn't see:
"Unidentified Person Wood-Chipped To Death in Pleasant Prarie!
-- Investigators unable to make 'heads or tails' of victim"
Could be. I bet identification would be difficult and time-consuming.
But they did it! And who was it? Whoever could it be???? Oh, it was the guy operating the machine. I'd never have guessed.
Besides me, who else thought this thread was going to be about one of Saddam's political foes or their children? |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| I remember when my friends worked at a peatmoss plant and one guy fell into one of the large mixers. They didn't find him for two weeks. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Actually that's the only part of the movie Fargo I actually liked. Now if I had a choice of how I'd off a few choice people, a woodchipper would be pretty high on my list for getting rid of them. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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Workers couldn't stop chipper
Victim's brother blames carelessness, faulty equipment in fatality
By ERIN RICHARDS
[email protected]
Posted: Aug. 16, 2006
The brother of a man killed when he was pulled through a wood chipper said Wednesday that carelessness and faulty equipment were to blame for the tragic accident.
How to Help
The family has established the Jeremiah Sanders Children's Benefit Fund, at First Banking Center, 3825 39th Ave., Kenosha WI 53144
Jeremiah Sanders, owner of J's Quality Tree Service, was pulled into a large industrial wood chipper Tuesday afternoon in Pleasant Prairie when he attempted to free a log jammed in the machine. Pleasant Prairie police spokesman Pete Jung said Sanders was pulled all the way through the chipper while co-workers tried unsuccessfully to stop the machine.
James Bennett, who had hired Sanders to clear branches out of his backyard in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. and witnessed the entire accident, said he couldn't believe how fast it happened.
"Shut it off! Shut it off!" the 81-year-old had yelled when he saw the machine grab Sanders' foot.
But, he said, the ordeal was over 20 seconds later.
Randolph Sanders said his brother's 21-year-old nephew was one of five crewmen trying to stop the machine. The nephew told him that the safety bar that is supposed to reverse the chipper's teeth failed to engage.
"There's almost eight feet of bar there to grab," Randolph Sanders said. "Jeremiah and his nephew were both pushing on the bar at one point, but it wouldn't reverse."
Sanders said his brother had just gone into business on his own last year and was using borrowed, unfamiliar equipment.
Jeremiah Sanders was the youngest son in a family of 11 brothers and sisters, all of whom live in Kenosha, his brother said. The avid duck and goose hunter had two daughters, ages 4 and 7, and another child on the way.
Sanders said that, especially for the sake of the children, he had reminded his brother often to be safer around wood chippers.
"It was stupid of him to put his foot in there, but the machine shouldn't have been there, either," Randolph Sanders said, adding that he hopes the accident compels someone to enforce yearly inspections of such equipment.
Occupational Safety & Health Administration officials would only say they were still investigating the accident, but another local tree serviceman said newer chippers, such as the one approved for 15-inch-diameter logs that Sanders was operating, are relatively safe because feed rollers can be quickly reversed.
Jeff Michaud, who runs Reliable Tree Service in Kenosha County, also said Sanders wasn't doing anything others in the tree service industry haven't done while on the job.
"If someone in this business says they haven't used their foot to free a log, they'd be lying," Michaud said.
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| When you are being eaten alive, 20 secs is a looooong time. |
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