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Plant Worker Electrocuted in Missouri

Nov. 17, 2014
The company makes industrial battery charges, and preliminary reports suggest the worker was doing some testing when the accident occurred.

A Ferro Magnetic Corp. employee was electrocuted last week at the Bridgeton, Mo., plant. The company makes industrial battery charges, and preliminary reports suggest the worker was doing some testing when the accident occurred.

St. Louis Post Dispatch reported that the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's St. Louis office is investigating and still trying to determine how the electrocution happened. The report says it happened sometime between 7:35 and 8:39 a.m. Tuesday.

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