[struwwelpeter]

I've worked dozens of red meat and poultry plants, but I can't figure out what sort of device could have sucked someone into it head first, especially packaging equipment.

And everything under maintenance or being sanitized should have been "locked out/tagged out" before he got close to it.

[editor-surveyor]

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> “And everything under maintenance or being sanitized should have been “locked out/tagged out” before he got close to it.”

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[4yearlurker]

Being the victim was working in a packaging area it could have been a banding/strapping machine. Those flat plastic straps that are wrapped around boxes for shipping. I also have worked a few slaughter houses and meat processing plants and can't think of a machine in a chicken plant that a person could be sucked into.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

lock out/tag out might be a revolutionary concept in Australia...

[goat granny]

I sure hope no one tell the muzzies about this machine, they'll start buying them up and decapitate in an express line..