CBS Seattle
LONGVIEW, Wash. — A Longview man is recovering from serious injuries after he was trapped and sent through a shredding wood chipper machine at work.
Much of Frank Arce’s body has been shredded and crushed after he climbed into a turned-off wood chipper machine to retrieve an object stuck in the bark-shredding device – something practiced by him and his co-workers at the Swanson Bark and Wood Products Company, KATU reports. However, someone was not aware that Arce was inside the barrel-sized machine, and the spikes and claws inside the device were turned back on with him inside.
Arce heard the machine click back on, but he knew it was too late for him to escape.
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