Police: Man sucked into sausage seasoning machine
May 23 2010 T
DANVERS, Mass.— Police said a cleaning man was taken to a hospital after being sucked into a machine at a sausage-making company in Danvers. The accident happened Thursday night as the man was cleaning the vacuum-type machine that is used to season the meat at DiLigui Sausage Co. Police said the man's head and shoulders became stuck in the machine after it somehow activated while being cleaned.
Lt. Carole Germano told The Salem News that the man _ whose name was not released _ was freed from the machine and showed no obvious sign of trauma, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
The man subsequently died from a severe staph infection contracted while a patient in the hospital. An anonymous attorney, who claimed to represent the man, said his client should have refused admission to the hospital, which was cited by state health officials 540 times in the past year for filthy, cockroach infested kitchens, medical instrument disinfecters that were inoperable and unplugged, the absence of hand soap for physician use in operating rooms, and animal feces left to dry on hospital floors so they could be more easily swept out the door.
"It's really disgusting and stinks in here all the time," according to a hospital employee, Jerome Tinkersley, who spoke on condition of anonimity because he feared the loss of his job. Good luck, Jerome.
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