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Article: ONE WORKER KILLED, TWO OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN SHREDDER MEN TRYING TO REPAIR MACHINE PINNED INSIDE AS PLATE SHIFTED.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 18, 2007
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Byline: LEVI PULKKINEN P-I reporter
An industrial accident at a South Seattle scrap recycler that shreds metal from cars killed one employee and left two others hospitalized with serious injuries Wednesday.
The three Seattle Iron & Metals Corp. workers were preparing to repair the recycler's massive car shredder when a metal service platform they were installing shifted, pinning them inside the machine, authorities said.
One worker was dead by the time Seattle Fire Department rescue personnel reached him, a Fire Department spokesman said. The survivors were taken to Harborview Medical Center.
As accident investigators set about their ...