County officials are investigating safety procedures in Santa Cruz after a horrifying accident in Watsonville. A 61-year-old man who had worked for the county for over forty years was pulled into a woodchipper right in front of his coworkers. The victim, who has yet to be named, was part of a crew clearing brush on Paulson Road. The county’s Mental Health Crisis Team was dispatched to the scene to comfort and provide counseling to the crew and other eyewitnesses of the incident.
Dinah Phillips, who works with the county, said, “We’re always looking at our safety processes and procedures and trying to tweak them and make them better and better to keep thing like this happening.”
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