FLORIDA — A worker has died after getting trapped beneath the arm of a conveyor belt at a manufacturing facility in Deerfield Beach, officials say.
An industrial accident was reported a little after midnight at 1441 W. Newport Drive, a facility that mass produces food products, according to Broward Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane.
The worker was trying to address a problem with a large machine at the facility when he became trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt, Kane said. First responders were not able to save the man, and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Officials are investigating the incident, Kane said. He did not identify the worker.
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