A devoted father has died in a horrific workplace accident after getting trapped in an industrial chemical mixer at a plant in Arizona.
A devoted father was killed in a horrific workplace accident after getting trapped in an industrial chemical mixer at a plant in Arizona.
Jose Fernando Partida, 57, died a week after the gruesome incident at his job at Gowan Milling in Yuma, on Jan. 4.
Partida was cleaning the inside of the mixer when the machine was accidentally turned on.
Another coworker who was helping clean the mixer was able to escape, but Partida was trapped.
“The sad thing is the time that he was there and that he was begging for help,” Partida’s son Omar told Arizona’s Family.
Power was shut off immediately, but it took about five hours for first responders to get Partida out of the mixer, a spokesperson for Rural Metro Fire told the outlet.
A hazmat team was required for the rescue mission due to exposure to harmful chemicals.
“I was imagining all the pain that he was passed through and all that stuff.
