WILLIAMSTON, SC (WYFF) -
A 62-year-old worker was killed at
an Upstate manufacturing plant Tuesday morning, according to the Anderson
County coroner.
The accident happened at Stanco
Metal Products at 107 Twenty Nine Court in Williamston.
Stanco is a metal stamping and
fabricating company. The company is headquartered in Michigan.
Coroner Greg Shore said Kendall R.
Collier, of Piedmont, fell into a metal stamping machine that two coworkers
were operating.
Shore said, "Our victim fell into
the machine and it caused a traumatic head injury."
He said Collier died of injuries
suffered in the accident, not any other medical event.
The 911 call was made at 9 a.m.
Shore said the plant manager told
him that the machine has a safety feature that should shut it down in something
goes wrong, but it appears that the safety feature was not working at the time
of the accident.
He said, "There was a coworker
also helping operate the machine, and right now we're trying to determine why
the safety features on the machine did not cause the machine to shut down with
him being so close to it."
"There are sensors set up
around the machine, so right now we're waiting on OSHA to get here from
Columbia to help us determine why that safety feature didn't work," Shore
said.
Collier came to work at 6 a.m. and
was supposed to get off at 2:30 p.m., according to Shore.
"The case will continue to be
worked and hopefully we can get some answers to the family on what happened and
hopefully to the coworkers on why the safety features didn't work on this machine,"
Shore said. "That's a big question mark right now."
Shore said the plant manager sent
everybody home after the accident.
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