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Salinas police officials will decline to comment on the case until the district

attorney

‘

s office wraps up the case, said Deputy Chief Rick Moore.

Stabbed in Vancouver

From the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries archive: At age

20, Shawn Eaton seemed to have life pretty well in hand. He had completed

more than half of his plumber

‘

s apprenticeship and was working full time,

earning $15 an hour. He felt he had a creative knack for solving plumbing

problems.

Then came the late-night trip Oct. 16, 1995, to a local grocery store in Vancouver,

Wash.

While walking back home from the store at about 11:30 p.m., Eaton and a friend

were approached by two men, each in his 20s. The two began talking about

gangs, about colors. One of the men demanded that Eaton hand over the red

sweatshirt he was wearing. Eaton refused. One man

—

Leopold W. Martin

—

took a swing at Eaton and jammed a

corkscrew

two inches deep near the left

temple of Eaton

‘

s head. Eaton took two steps forward, then fell to the ground. He

could not open his eyes. His last thought before losing consciousness was that

someone should tell his boss that he would be late for work the next day.

Auger Accident

Ashuburton, New Zealand, September 16, 2004, the

Ashburton Guardian

reported:

―

An Ashburton woman injured when her arm was trapped in an offal

auger at Canterbury Meat Packers

‘

Seafield plant will be paid $4000 by the

company that employed her to clean the machine.

Donna Meager was working for Optimum Cleaning Systems at the time and the

company was yesterday also fined $5000 for breaching health and safety in

employment legislation. The company was contracted to clean at the plant.

Optimum had pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to take all practicable steps to

ensure the safety of its employees at work and ensure they were not exposed to

hazards arising from the use of the offal auger. The auger has been described as a

huge

rotating horizontal corkscrew

, transporting the offal of slaughtered

animals from one room to another for processing.

… Ms Meager thought the auger was switched off when

she put her hand into it

on March 3 to remove a kidney blocking the exit chute. The trapped arm was

repaired with the use of steel plates.

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