Article: ONE WORKER KILLED, TWO OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN SHREDDER MEN TRYING TO REPAIR MACHINE PINNED INSIDE AS PLATE SHIFTED.(News)

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 ...

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