Unfortunately, there seems to be an endless number of ways to die on the job. None of them are pretty.<\/p>\n
This particular case caused the man\u2019s family a great deal of grief and anguish, as he was only 21 years old at the time of the incident. He went to work in the morning, thinking about what needed to be done at work. The man\u2019s workplace was at a wood products company.<\/p>\n
That fateful day, the young man had been assigned to an auger on the east side of the company\u2019s building and was responsible for grinding up scrap chunks of wood and feeding them into an incinerator. No one knows what happened, as he was working alone, but something got stuck in the auger. The man went to free it up and his clothing got caught in the whirling blades. He died as a result of being mauled by the auger.<\/p>\n