Woodchipper 'Eats' Man

A man in Los Angeles was killed when he went through a wood chipper.

The tree service worker "was standing at the back end of the chipper, throwing branches into it with his co-workers nearby," said Sgt. Pat Welch of the Tustin Police Department. "One of them looked over, and he was gone."

"He was one of three workers trimming trees and removing debris from a private residence," he said. "One was in the tree and the other hauling debris. He was there and then he wasn't there; it was an unfortunate industrial accident."

Jose Martinez, owner of JM Tree Service in Anaheim where the men were employed, said Thursday that he was too distraught to talk. "I don't have an explanation to tell you," he said.

He is one of 31 people killed in wood chipper accidents between 1992 and 2002. It ranks up there as being one of the more painful ways of dying.

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[yingjai]

I wouldn't have known it was one of the more painful ways of dying because I thought it kills you relatively quick. The guy throwing in branches didn't even hear his coworker scream in pain.