Sausage Factory Worker Killed in Horrifying Meat Grinder Accident
- Posted on July 15, 2011 at 10:57pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A 26-year-old sausage factory worker died Wednesday after he slipped and fell into the meat grinder he was cleaning.
Michael Raper was working Tuesday night at a food plant in southwest Oklahoma when the accident occurred.
“He slipped and went into the machine. He was still conscious at the time,” Diane Ferris, the aunt of Raper‘s fiance told Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV. “So I can imagine the agony he was in, and he lost both of his legs in this accident.”
Ferris said it took about two hours to free Raper from the machinery. He was transported to the hospital, where he later died.
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation is ongoing. In a statement, Bar-S Foods CEO and Chairman Tim Day said the company is cooperating with authorities and is launching its own internal investigation as well.
“The entire Bar-S Foods family is mourning the loss of our friend and co-worker,” Day said. “We extend our deepest condolences to the employee’s family, and we are committed to helping them and our employees get through this difficult period.”
Raper was engaged to be married in February and had four children.
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Comments (131)
audiemurphy
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:46amtoo bad JZS can’t switch places with the poor fellow !
Report Post »lock- out! I always do I work in open pit mining in the maintenance dept and I can site many examples of injury and near misses because someone got lazy and didn’t lock out either switch gear or machine at power source!
To die in a meat grinder accident wow that sucks!
ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:57amnormally i refrain from making pedantic grammatical and/or spelling corrections to people’s posts, but since you’ve openly wished death upon a complete stranger simply because you dislike their comments i feel compelled to do so. i believe the word you’re looking for is CITE not “site”. have a nice day!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:39amand it‘s called ’lock-out, tag-out’
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:18amSo, since you guys may be a little sharper with the English lanquage that makes you better men huh?
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:36am@Argument wrote
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:57am
normally i refrain from making pedantic grammatical and/or spelling corrections to people’s posts, but since you’ve openly wished death upon a complete stranger simply because you dislike their comments i feel compelled to do so. i believe the word you’re looking for is CITE not “site”. have a nice day!
@Argument
Report Post »Since we are into correcting grammar, you might want capitalize “I” and the first letter of each sentence while you are at it there Spunky.
Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:46am4 KIDS!! and only ENGAGED to be married………at 26????oh those pesky wedding vows.
Oh geez, the insurance companies are gonna be debating over his pre-conditions over his hospital bed.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:47pmAudie, you hurt my feelings with that remark :-(
Somebody said wait for the investigation and I agree. But actually I do work for a manufacturer and helped write our policy. But here’s my prediction. OSHA will find that the company does not have a LOTO policies, or they didn‘t enforce them or they didn’t train people etc. Everybody here is quick to blame the individual and assume the company is blameless. This website won’t report it, but the company, if history means anything, is probably to blame.
Yep, regulations serve a purpose. It may sound great to say “get rid of OSHA and the EPA” but we as a country have already tried that. That’s why we have those organizations. Rivers burned and kids played in toxic playgrounds.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:48pmI go around the world and around the contry installing safety equipment on machines in factories, I see workers all the time that even thing that if the E-stop button is pushed that the machine is safe to climb inside, they are shocked when I say no you can’t do that, you have to shut off the power and lock it off and turn off all other sources of energy to the machine and be careful of stored energy in some machines, can‘t believe this doesn’t happen a lot more.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:29amWhat do they do in a situation like that? Do they clean the machine up and continue processing meat or do they replace it?
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:45amf’n moron
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:40amwhat do YOU think they do?
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:50amNo. They pull him out and keep grinding meat. Seriously, man.
Report Post »Vietvet1
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:35amI remember in the 60′s when I worked at a local ( now defunct ) Steel Mill. I worked at the Electric Furnace and we had what was called a double **** and we needed to draw a steel sample from an open ladle. Well One of the guys fell in. POOF!! They took the whole heat and dumped it and relined the Ladle. Not much to bury as all he did was to add carbon to the heat. Not to add the value of a complete heat….Same happened to a man at the Blast Furnace… a man fell into a torpedo of molten iron. Not much you can do but to NOT use the product and clear the containers. When fire, sharp edges, compression, heights etc. are involved in making a living… accidents, and even suicides are a possible part of the job… no matter how hard you try to keep things safe. I even worked for a printer and one of the printers cut a few fingers off when cutting a ream of stock. When a young boy, a friend even lost fingers in a piece of farm equipment. It happens.
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:19amThey are allowed 2% filler.
Report Post »Caerus
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:37pmThis isn’t a stupid question to those of us who know next to nothing about industries like this. I would presume that they don’t just keep grinding (though that response did make me laugh in a very insensitive way), but do they clean it really well and then keep using it? Do they have to keep it nonoperational during the investigation? After the investigation is completed, they can use it again, yes?
My great-uncle lost both of his arms in an accident with a wheat thresher years ago. I believe he ended up hiring someone to use the thresher, cleaned it, and kept using it. Admittedly, this was HIS machine, on his farm, so it may be different for a big company. He has always been very impressive to me, as he still runs his own farm. He hires people when he absolutely needs a set of arms to do something, and uses his border collies for everything else. Awesome guy.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:20am@JZS
Report Post »Only a political hack like you would bring such b.s. into the discussion. I can tell you from going into hundreds of food, meat, beverage, and dairy processing plants that they all have plant LOTO procedures. Most of them exceed the OSHA regs. It’s not a democrat or republican issue, it’s a HUMAN issue! Idiot!
BlkWdow
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:26amamen Biff
Report Post »nannyatnannydotgov
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:54amI watched a 43 minute online safety video this morning. It was on LOTO.
Compliance with OSHA’s lockout/tagout standard (29 CFR 1910.147) prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries each year.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:44amAgreed. The way some people here try to throw politics at every story is lame.
Report Post »Lock out tag out makes things safer, but there is no such thing as a workplace where no one can ever get hurt. Fwiw accidents in peoples homes cause far more injuries and deaths than industrial accidents.
jzs
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:39pmBiff Marupis, says “Only a political hack like you would bring such b.s. into the discussion. I can tell you from going into hundreds of food, meat, beverage, and dairy processing plants that they all have plant LOTO procedures… Idiot!”
Biff, you simply have to stop making up your own facts, especially when they are so easily proved false. I found plenty of recent example in the food industry with a single search. Here’s one from January, “The agency fined Bridgford Foods Processing $212,000 for not maintaining and training workers on lockout/tagout procedures, exposing them to risks of unintended machine start-ups. The meat processing plant was given one willful, six repeat, two serious and one other-than-serious citations as part of its Severe Violators Enforcement program. The company has been fined three times since November 2007.
“By failing to train employees and enforce lockout/tagout procedures, Bridgford Foods placed employees in danger of serious injury from equipment that was not properly de-energized.”
http://www.safetytrainingnetwork.com/cgi/news_view.cgi?request=article&article_id=800342148
I won’t call you any names, but if you make stuff up, expect to look foolish.
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:13amOne last note, I will tell you that even with all the safety training and equipment in the world accidents can and will happen. Case in point, at the same Tyson plant on the cleaning crew in which I worked they used caustic soda beads to clean the loose meat from one machine, the procedure is that before you rinse the caustic soda from the machine you are to yell out and anyone in the line of fire of the high pressure spray is to clear the area. One individual that night was leaning into the breading tumbler and did not hear the other person yell and while spraying out that machine it shot the caustic soda and water right up the back of the other worker. In a way both were at fault and at the same time neither were at fault, it just shows that accidents can and do often happen regardless on the amount of safety protocol instituted.
Report Post »BlkWdow
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:24amso true…so true
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:25amI work with Caustic Soda (Sodium Hydroxide) in a liquid form.It will dissolve skin and leather.I also work with Phenol (very deadly) and Formaldehyde.We have very strict safety rules concerning all this.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:50amThey were using caustic soda beads to clean a tumbler? A breading tumbler? If that’s true, it’s wrong. Caustic makes breading like concrete!
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:07amWhat a horrific way to go. My prayers and condolences to his loved ones. For those of you speaking of LOTO, I agree with you to a degree. I used to work on the cleaning crew for a Tyson plant and just a little information, especially for those that have already jumped to conclusions, there are machines that you have to turn on while you are cleaning them. For instance I was cleaning a breading tumbler and in order to properly clean it you had to have it on and rotating to get all the breading out of it and yes you are leaning into the machine to do so. So the fact that the machine was running is not a surprise to me as it is more than likely a part of the cleaning procedure.
Report Post »confederacyofdunces
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:51amThey ought to rig up some sort of harness that allows you to get the job done and keep you from falling fully into the machinery. Be safe out there.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:52amWell they do have fall protection harnesses but they allow for a certain amount of controlled drop so it might not help in that instance.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:11amWith all the technology we have, I just cannot understand how or why this happened. Many machines have safety redundant systems when the machines needs to be cleaned, along with a harness that shut down the machine if there is too much tension on it. I would like to know more of the facts. What a horrible tragedy.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 17, 2011 at 2:35amNot enough money in the world for me to take a job with such risks.
Report Post »GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:01amJust horrible and terribly sad. Prayers for his family and hopefully the company does right by them.
Once worked for a company that supplied a piece of equipment in a factory where a similarly horrifying industrial death occurred. Our product wasn’t involved nor had the faintest influence but the attorneys for the deceased plastered every company that ever supplied a paper clip or light bulb with a claim. After spending $15-$20k responding the judge dismissed us and most of the other non-involved companies. We later learned there was a good number of companies in the same boat that just mailed in a small check to be excused without the legal banter. The attorneys got a nice little war chest to go after the unlucky manufacturer of the machine that actually killed the man. Despite the deceased recklessly disabling redundant safeties, and “reaching” in where no one should ever put their arm during operation or powered for that matter, the manufacturer still paid up. The security camera recording the man getting caught, struggling valiantly, only to get sucked in and dispatched on the other side in a puddle was the deciding factor. No predicting how a jury would react to that exhibit. Safety first can never be under stated or under practiced!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:00amlock out tag out moron ………………at least unplug the dam thing
now we will have to put a sign that states “”do not fall inside meat grinder………..may result in poor flavored food “”
kinda reminds me about the moron that said there needs to be a sign on a blow hole in hawaii…………….like anyone with ANY common sense would know to not go near a hole in the ground
man there are a bunch of idiots walkin this earth
Report Post »ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:00amahhh, gotta love that christian compassion
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:09am@ arguem whatever
who said i was christian ????????
methinks your making a judgement based on absolutely no evidence one way or the other
but my comment is verified and with no assumptions……………… only idiots work on machinery without first making sure they cant be turned on
no go take your ASSuming butt and go back to the huff in puff
Report Post »Hemispheres
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:48amMaybe you’re (note spelling) not Christian, Psychosis, but your post lacks both compassion and any sign of critical thinking.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 6:23amCome on, anyone who has worked for the police department knows black humor. And y’all were thinking it, just he said it…about the meat tasting funny.
Report Post »duckman1911
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:28amWhat is the deal with all of these people whining because someone doesnt show compassion? They must cry all day long everyday for all the people in the world that die on a daily basis. Suck it up and grow a set. All the compassion in the world isnt gona change the outcome…
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:53pmI guess that’s why bar-s hotdogs are 88cents a package!
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:13amPuke
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:43amsaving your sense of humor for another time?
Report Post »FORLORNHOPE
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:47pmThis same thing happened on a factory trawler in Alaska. A beautiful 28 year old lady who had a young child at home. Everybody said she was a hard worker who was going places. She did not die but lost both legs the 2 augers that mangled both legs had to be cut out with a torch. She was consensus the whole time. The blame was laid on lock-out tag-out policy failure… nobody owned up to mistakenly turning on the machinery she was cleaning. Now every worker on shift has a key to a master lock-out box the has all the other lock-out machinery keys inside, this an industry wide practice now. It still gives me nightmares even though I was not there.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:14amI remember reading about that at the time.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:46pmConsensus?
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:43pmIf he did not follow “Lock out tag out” procedures, he shouldn’t be able to sue or anything.A sister plant of ours lost an electrician who chose not to follow LOTO procedures.He was killed just working on a light fixture.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:56pmHe’s dead. I‘m pretty sure he won’t be filing a lawsuit. Can you read?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:02amObviously the company didn’t the follow lock out tag out procedures required by OSHA. However, OSHA is a governmental regulatory body that imposes regulations on companies that reduces profits to companies. The “job creators” are losing money trying to comply with these regulations.
The Republican view is simple: this death was this person’s fault. He was careless. Why the regulations that cause these companies reduced profits when deaths are the employees fault? Get rid of OSHA regulations!
The Democratic view: companies should provide a safe workplace for employees so they don’t die and leave their children without a wage earning father.
BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:10amThen his family can’t sue.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:28amJZS, you are an absolutely disgusting person.
Report Post »Typical lying marxist.
Viet Vet
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:44amNo BLAZE, I’m not posting to quickly, I’m not posting at all….well, yes I’m posting, but the posts are not being posted.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:12am@ jzs obviously you have never worked around machinery
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO LOCK OUT MACHINERY WHILE WORKING ON IT
in fact, it is your responsibility to use your own lock with its own key
there is no way the family can sue unless the company told its employees NOT to lock out machinery while doing maintenance
and here you had us all thinking you were smart all this time ……………..not
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:45amthat’s IF he was trained properly. Safety talks protect the worker AND the CEO.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:46amHe wouldn’t be able to sue, he doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:14amDead people don’t sue.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:11amLol this JZS tool is hilarious. The worker didn‘t follow procedure so it’s the companies fault! Oh and those evil Republicans too!!!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:51pmJZS is right on this one. We need to just sit down, shut up and let Our Great Government control every aspect of business. In fact, all private-owned businesses should be dissolved and mereged with Our Great Government. That way, those who are smarter and more enlightened than we commomn chattle can control everything work related fro safety standards to our payroll to the very clothes we wear to work in. It‘ll be a wonderful Utopia where no one will even get so much as a scratch or bruise and those evil business owners won’t be able to benefit from our non-Union slave labor! GLORY TO THE GOV’MENT!!!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:59pmSeriously… I feel bad enough that he died in such a horrible fasion. I feel even worse seeing his corpse molested to further the political agendas of others.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:49pmThanks for the support URSAMINOR. Oh wait, you were being sarcastic. The fact is that before government got involved, that state of workplace safety was so appalling, with so many deaths, that the United States created OSHA under President Nixon (that notorious liberal). Profit driven companies simple weren’t protecting their employees, nor were they keeping carcinogens out of your chidren’s drinking water. Hence the EPA, also under Nixon.
You post was cute, but reality before the government stepped in to serve the greater good was grim and accidents like this were common. You get points for cute, but none for common sense.
Report Post »smark
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:43pmOh, this is horrible. I am so very sorry to all of his family and friends. BIG HUG!!!
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:39pmMy condolences to his family.
Report Post »single stack
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:36pmmharry860,
Report Post »Lockout/tagout is a safety procedure where anyone who has to work on or enter a piece of machinery places a tag on the power supply warning not to turn it on and at the same time places a lock on the switch and keeps the key in his pocket. That way it’s impossible for the machinery to be started until the person working on it unlocks it. If more than one person is going to work on the machine each person puts his own lock on it.
ashestoashes
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:35pmWow!! What a sad and horrific thing for this poor man. Condolensces to both his family and his fiancee.
Report Post »Aerocog
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:34pmJust the type of story I want to hear while i’m eating a plate of eggs and sausage.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:32pmIsn’t “horrifying meat grinder accident” kind of redundant? As opposed to what? A pleasant meat grinder accident? A beautiful and charming meat grinder accident? An amusing meat grinder accident?
Report Post »GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:55pmDamn, you’re making me LOL about a “horrifying meat grinder accident”!
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:36amReminds me of the guy who worked at a pickle factory….came home early telling his wife he got fired cause he got caught with his thingey in the pickle slicer. After questioning, turned out the pickle slicer got fired too.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:09pmVIET VET:
Report Post »Glad to see you came back from Nam with your sense of humor. Not many of us left. Reminds me of CHUCKLES the CLOWN. Life just seems funny at the saddest times. Keeps me going.
normbal
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:31pmShh… don‘t let word get out that there’s a job opening at the plant, human resources will be swamped Monday morning with applicants.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:29pmman…
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:24pmIf a human can fall into the machinery what else is making its way into it?
Report Post »GABOB
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:13amthat what makes sausage so tasty. The mystery stuff.
RIP young man, our thoughts are with you and your family.
Report Post »sundell1951
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:17pmI work in the mining industry. Failure to follow LOTOTO protocol is immediate termination. PERIOD!
Report Post »I hate to admit that there is a use for MSHA/OSHA but as long as there are employers that don’t care about safety things like this will continue to occur.This was not an accident. This was pure greed and stupidity on the owner/supervisors part.They should be charged criminally.
Condolances to the family. Now call an attorney.
GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:10amYou could very well be right that the company was greedy and negligent. I posted a story that recalls a terrible death occurred despite the company and equipment having redundent safeties, procedures, and training in place to prevent what happened. It took a reckless human being to defeat the safeties and it resulted in his death. Just saying we don’t know all the facts here….
Report Post »Charybdis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:34amI’m pretty sure his “termination” was indeed immediate.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:15am@ gramps
how is this the companies fault ?
it is your personal responsibility to make sure your PERSONAL lock and key is used to lock out machinery while working on it …………….as per osha mandates
if he neglected to follow this simple and common sense rule its his own fault………sad but thats why they say common sense really isnt common
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:14pmPrayers for the family. I used to live just down the road from this plant in Lawton/Fort Sill, OK. They have all the right procedures on the books & try to enforce them but people are fallible. (on the other hand, if it weren’t an actual tragedy the headline is kinda’ funny in a sick way)
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:13pmomg im so sorry for this man…our prayers are with his family….
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:08pmGod bless this man and his family. They will be in our prayers.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:24pmDid you get that handle from a cross dressing British comedians act?
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:28pmChurch of England, cake or death?!
Cake please.
Fine, give him cake.
Church of England, cake or death?!
Death please.
Ah hah!
Sorry, I meant cake, cake please.
You said death first!
But I meant cake!
Oh, all right. Here you go. Your lucky this is the church of England you know.
Cake or death?
Cake please.
Sorry, we’ve just run out of cake.
So my choice is or death?!….. I’ll have the chicken.
Report Post »FoundingTrek
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:03am@SGBT
Report Post »“SLARTIBARTFAST” is a character from the Science Fiction novel series ‘Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams. I know, not on topic, but at least an answer to your question.
Bennie Franklin
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:04pmTainted beef..horibble way to go. All joking aside, I feel for his family.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:30pmThis is BarS we are talking about here. They are known as the cheapest meat producer in the region. You can make up your own mind as to what is allowed to pass into the hotdogs that they make.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 1:11amCome on guys!! You coulda talked all day and not said that..
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:02pmGood grief have these people not heard of lock out tag out? OSHA should pad lock this company.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:14pmWhat’s that? I would have thought a harness would be required.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:23pmMHARRY, When working on a machine that could swallow you whole and kill you, as this one apparently can, you should shut off the machine, switch the breaker to the off position, and lock it out with a lock not disimilar from a standard keyed master lock. You then take the key with you so that only you, the person using the equipment or servicing it, can unlock the breaker and power the machine on. That is what he is talking about.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:24pmLock out Tag out. My first thoughts exactly! Sounds like the employee was trying to take wreckless shortcuts. My sympathy goes out to him and his family. Common sense should always be the rule.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:26pmLock out tag out is a safety procedure that prevents accidents like this one from ever happening . Look it up , it’s a valuable lesson for anybody doing a repair of any sort .
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:39pmMust be a non-union plant.
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