Factory worker dies after becoming glued to meat grinder
Police found the lower half of his body crushed
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Your support makes all the difference.A pet food factor worker in Thailand died after slipping into a meat grinder, police said on Wednesday.
37-year-old Zaw May Zir, a migrant worker from Myanmar who had worked at the factory for five years, is thought to have been unable to extricate himself from the machine as it was filled with glue used to make artificial bones for dogs to chew on.
"It was an accident,” Lieutenant Thaninthorn Suaypan, a case officer with Chonburi police, told AFP.
"I went to examine the man with the doctor and the lower half of his body was crushed."
The factory, which used the name PetSmart, apparently did not respond to phone calls made by AFP.
The accident renews concerns over the exploitation of migrant workers in Thailand, many of whom work in the country illegally.
It falls in the same week as news of another horrific factory-based death, which saw a man cooked alive with 12,000 pounds of tuna.
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