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Posted on 04/22/2005 4:38:48 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
Sow! That's gotta hurt. A worker at a slaughterhouse east of the city accidentally shot a co-worker in the leg Wednesday when the intended target, a pig, bumped into the weapon.
"It's not a typical incident," Alberta Occupational Health and Safety spokesman Chris Chodan said yesterday.
The owner of a slaughterhouse in Marwayne, 245 km east of Edmonton, was attempting to shoot the pig around 11 a.m. but his efforts were hampered by a sling on his right arm, said Chodan.
"He was attempting to shoot a pig with his left hand," said Chodan.
A single bullet was discharged after the swine bumped into the gun. The bullet slammed through a nearby door before striking the co-worker in the leg, said Chodan.
The wounded man was expected to be able to return to work at the Marwayne Slaughterhouse yesterday.
The pig has been slaughtered, said Chodan.
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is now investigating the incident and has issued a stop-work order.
Alberta Agriculture spokesman Terry Willock said guns can be used to stun pigs before slaughter, if the operator is qualified.
"It's an appropriate method to use firearms," Willock said.
But the majority of swine slaughterhouse operators use electricity to stun pigs beforehand, added Willock.
Dr. Louis Francescutti, head of the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, said even the most bizarre of accidents is preventable.
"Remember, there's no such thing as a freak accident," he said. "This isn't a freak accident.
"Don't call it that. There's a reason why it happened."
In the fall of 2002, a 55-year-old U.S. man was fatally shot by a man butchering hogs on a farm near Frazee, Minnesota.
As it died, the hog fell backwards but then jumped forward, knocking down the man holding the rifle.
The rifle fired on impact and left the 55-year-old man with injuries causing his death later in a hospital.
That shooting was ruled accidental.
O, Canaduh.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
The wounded man was expected to be able to return to work at the Marwayne Slaughterhouse yesterday.
The pig has been slaughtered, said Chodan.
Sure, get rid of the witness.
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That's what I like, instant justice!
As it died, the hog fell backwards but then jumped forward, knocking down the man holding the rifle.
The rifle fired on impact and left the 55-year-old man with injuries causing his death later in a hospital.
Ahhhhh the old fall backwards fake move then fall fowards and kill the man move..
ROFL!!!!
And no one had a camera??!!
Two legs bad, four legs good.
Wow. Do I get to make the first Hillary/Vince Foster comment?
Mad pig disease?
Now that was a freek accident. The slaughterhouse "accident" does sound more like negiligence. However even the farm accident was likely preventable by merely staying well away from the porker when you shoot it, easy enough when shooting with a rifle!
I hate when that happens.
Reminds me of that old George Hamilton flick, "Zorro, the Gay Blade", where he returns to California to find that his father was killed in a riding accident by a turtle. The Alcalde informs him, "The turtle of course, has been executed..."
How. do you know that a genuine freak wasn't the shooter?
GO HOGS!!!
ol' hoghead
th-th-th-th-tha-that's just damnable, folks
My husband worked in a meatpacking plant (beef). One of the injuries he treated was a stab in the b--- rearin of a guy who backed into another workers knife.
You think this might be another Arkancide?
It was self defense!
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