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Cardboard bale compactor 20.04.2006

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A 22-year-old worker put his head inside a cardboard bale compactor to check the mechanism, and was fatally injured when a ramming plate slid down and pinned his head against the top of the bale chamber door. The bale compactor did not meet legal safety criteria, and workers had not been adequately trained in using it.

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Ulrike Bollmann, BGAG - European Network Education and Training in OSH (ENETOSH)