Worker crushed by steel bars of lettuce drying machine

AN inquest into the death of a worker in a food processing plant has heard he died after he was crushed between two steel bars of a lettuce drying machine while trying to brush underneath it.

Alexandr Sciogolev, 24, from tSean Mhargadh apartment, Drogheda, had been working at Nature’s Best, Donore road, Drogheda, when the accident happened on October 6, 2007.

Drogheda Coroner’s Court heard that it appeared he had gone to clean under the machine after it had stopped – which sometimes happened if there was too much salad in it – but that another worker had then turned it back on.