Industrial Meat Grinders: Where People Go To Meat

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[00:01:25] Hey everybody, welcome back to New Fear Unlocked. This is the first time in nearly, what, two months? That we've done it in person? That we've done it in person? Yeah, so crazy. In the hot box, surrounded by blankets so that we sound really good, but we smell really bad. It's not great, I don't love it. It's not even like the dead of summer right now, which is crazy. It's actually very mild outside. Yeah, and it's temperate in here so far.

[00:01:54] We're probably going to end up recording more than one New Fear Unlocked episode today though, and by the time we're done, it's going to be 100 degrees and we're going to be losing our minds. You'll know exactly that moment. I'm sure you'll be able to hear it. Yeah, you'll be able to hear the sweat dripping down my chin. But we're not there yet.

[00:02:12] We are today gathered to discuss what may be too small or too specific of a fear to feature in a regular scared all the time episode. But I think is a fear that in this day and age is something that we do need to draw attention to, and is something that we do need to discuss, especially something we want to make our fans aware of, and that is industrial meat grinder accidents. Oh my God.

[00:02:40] Yeah, well I guess manufacturing is coming back so we should be up on top of this shit. Yeah, I mean, compared to fires in the shirt waste factory, I don't know that there's any that are famous industrial meat grinder accidents to be aware of, but I was shocked by the fact that I discovered more than one industrial meat grinder accident just in the past couple of years.

[00:03:07] I discovered these because Ed and I keep a running list, we try to keep a running list of articles and ideas, especially for new Fear Unlocked episodes. And one of the articles that ended up on this list was an industrial meat grinder accident. And just within that article itself, there was a link to a second industrial meat grinder accident. And then I said, What does it say like for more meat grinder content? Click here. Yeah.

[00:03:33] I was like, we definitely need to do an industrial meat grinder accident episode. I never would have thought that there would be two just within a few years, although it does sound like a dangerous piece of equipment. I got it can't not be there's no way which it can't be. I actually I'm playing, you know, I'm always years late to everything that we don't have time to play video games, but I'm playing a Jedi survivor the like second of the Jedi games on, you know, next gen councils.

[00:04:02] And one of the locations that on like Coruscant or something was a giant like meat grinding facility where they're, you know, chopping up space cows or whatever. And then you had to like ride like space cow carcasses like through different sections. Wait, is this one of the games with the redhead? Yeah. Yeah. Like the ginger Jedi. Yeah. Ginger Jedi. That actor has a name. He's a real person. Yeah.

[00:04:32] Does he act in stuff? That's not the game. Yeah, no, he's this is I'm going to draw a blank on his name now, but this is one of the cases of an actor being cast in a game. I'm sure with the promise that this character was going to end up in a movie or something because he's a real he started. The first thing I saw him on was Cameron Monahan. I think is his name. The first thing I saw him on was shameless. And then he played the Joker on one of the DC television shows.

[00:05:01] Some CW crap, probably. I think the Fox one. Oh, the Fox. Is that the one that Anna was in? Maybe I don't. It was like Gotham police. I think I think. I think it's on a show in there. And now, yeah, he plays not Kyle Katarn. That's the other Jedi from the games. No, his name is Cal something or other. Cal Ripken Jr. He plays Cal Ripken Jr. Of the of the Orioles. Fun game. I liked it. I mean, I enjoy these. I like big worlds and looking for treasure chests and shit, but I only bring it up because,

[00:05:30] yeah, there's like a location that's literally a meat grinding facility that you have to like, oh, don't step on that big grinder. You'll die. We haven't opened one of those in the States yet. Yeah. For space bovine. For imagine. Although, is that true that Trump was releasing something about like hard evidence of aliens this week? No. To like avoid the Epstein or is that just something I saw on the Internet of the joke? That was that was a rumor.

[00:05:56] That was a misinterpreted joke from a member of Congress, I believe, had tweeted as a joke. Trump will next release the alien files to got it. And then it got reported on as real news. I mean, I'm sure if there are alien files accessible to Trump, they will come out. Yeah. He released, I think, I haven't had time to go very deep, but a lot of MLK. Yeah.

[00:06:21] Anything to any, any cucumber you can throw to keep the cap away at this point. Yeah. So that's, yeah. So that's why I didn't know if that was real enough time. You know, we were, I was traveling. I didn't look into it. No, that wasn't real. If that was real, I'm like, well, then we're going to get space bovine meat grinding facilities.

[00:06:37] There is a sort of simmering alien news story that I guess we might as well just touch on quickly about the Harvard physicist, Avi Loeb, who hypothesized that that large, nearly cylindrical space rock that flew near earth. A few years ago, Uma, Uma, Uma Thurman. Not Uma Thurman. No, she's, she's earth bound. She's an earth, she's an earth angel. Oh no.

[00:07:05] Uma, Uma, I think is sort of how you pronounce it. Okay. It was a large, nearly like oval cylindrical long thin space rock that this physicist. Cigar shaped. Cigar shaped. There we go. This physicist theorized for a number of reasons may have been some sort of an interstellar probe based on its trajectory and how close it got to earth. It was exhibiting some odd behaviors for, for a meteor or you only call it a meteor when it enters the atmosphere. I think. I don't know. I'll take your word for it.

[00:07:34] Some interstellar comet or whatever. And anyway, there's another space thing heading towards us that he is theorizing. This would be the year. Based on its trajectory, it's going to take itself very close to a number of planets within our solar system and then come close to earth. But when we would be most easily be able to observe it, it will slip, I believe behind the sun. And so the thought is that it's some other kind of probe and that it's getting close.

[00:07:59] It's being blown up in the news as a potentially hostile alien ship or probe because it's trying to be stealthy, but it's not being that stealthy because we've detected it. Yeah. So I feel like it can't be that stealthy or hostile. I guess you would just want to check. You would just want the ability to check, is it traveling in a straight line or not? Like if it's traveling in a straight line and it's narrowly missing all these planets, great. But if it has to like scoot around planets, then it's not just an asteroid or whatever. I haven't looked too far into it.

[00:08:28] It does seem that it's on some sort of trajectory, although I did read something I think that suggested that it might be its trajectory seems a little odd and wobbly like it's changing. I don't even care anymore. Let them fucking come like that. Everything sucks. Here's the thing, though. They're here. I think they've always been here. You think in World of the Worlds or under the ground? No, I think just there's a good chance that there's another intelligence on this planet. Dolphins. Yes. Dolphins for sure. Octopus for sure.

[00:08:58] No, but a highly advanced intelligence that is living alongside us that does its best to just keep its nose out of our business because it doesn't want to bother with us. It's not, you know, we're it's advanced. We are imagine. Think of it this way. I think that there's a good chance that there is some sort of an intelligent species that lives alongside us the way that we live alongside fire ants.

[00:09:21] And if fire ants started becoming a little bit more intelligent and dangerous, we would also be like, let's avoid the fire ants for as long as we can. We don't want to have to kill all of them. But we also don't want to step in their nests because they seem very sketchy and dangerous. Okay. And also answer physically small though. So it would have to be, I guess, like apes or something got a little smarter. Well, what I'm saying is, but apes, apes, we're close enough to apes that there's a, that there's an intelligence parallel.

[00:09:51] Okay. Whereas like ants, like I feel like whatever is on the pen. Oh, you're saying we're so stupid to these aliens. Yes. Got you. But it's like, we don't want to fuck with them and we don't necessarily want to kill them, but. But we will hinder any progress of going to Mars. Or nuclear weapons. Like we will throw it just to keep them out of the solar system. Because if this level of dumb goes out into the world. Potentially. It's going to make us all dumb. Here's the level of dumb we're discussing. If reality TV gets to Mars.

[00:10:14] The headline is teenage cleaner fatally sucked into meat grinder at California factory for popular frozen burrito brand. Okay. Ed, do you want to guess which frozen burrito brand this was? The one that's 99 cents. That's got like the triangles and shit on there. Yes. Yes. Okay. Do you know what they're called? I'd have an H I want to say. Tina's. Fuck it's Tina's. You're not, it was not an H at all, but I'm, I have that, like the logo with the triangles in my head. Right? Yes. Like that's correct. Yes.

[00:10:44] Yes. So the cheapest burrito you can possibly buy. Doesn't have great safety record when it comes to their industrial meat grinders. There we go. There you go. Also hard to find meat in those. That isn't, that isn't a teenage cleaners. Yeah. Body. Turns out when, by the time the teenage cleaner comes out the other side, there's really not much meat on them bones. So this, this article tells us. A lot of broom pole in this. A teenager. What is it in? Sorry. What is it in Simpsons?

[00:11:11] My friend Dan always quotes it where they're, they're trying to meat grind the gym mats. It's like, well, not a lot of meat in these gym mats or whatever. I can't think of right now. I'll put it in the show notes. It is such a fucking good joke. This article begins. A teenager was sucked into a meat grinder and killed Sunday when the machine suddenly turned on while he was cleaning it at a California factory for a popular frozen burrito brand. Inside job or test piloting AI.

[00:11:39] The unidentified 19 year old victim was working at Tina's burritos food processing plant in Vernon as part of the after hours sanitation crew when the deadly mishap occurred according to the Vernon police department. So was he cleaning the blades? He was cleaning the meat grinder. This says. So like someone has to turn it off and go in there and I guess and do it when it somehow activated and sucked him inside at around 9 30 PM.

[00:12:06] Other workers said they heard the team shouting for help as they tried to turn off the machine, but couldn't Jesus Christ. He was still alive. Well, yeah. Did you see the movie? The machinist feels very similar. Oh, I thought I was imagining like a wood chipper like you go in one end and you just you're done. That's also what I was imagining, but I also sounds like a long process, but when you think of meat grinding, there's a little bit more nuance to it in the sense. It's usually like a person twists in that handle it like an Italian deli, right?

[00:12:35] And it goes in and makes like sausage or squiggly or the or the Play-Doh machine that did the same thing when we were kids. Yeah, so I imagine that's like you don't just push the machine. Put meat in and then have it blast all over the wall. Like it comes out like in a slow orchestrated kind of. Yeah. So yeah, I imagine you might have a little bit more time to like there goes my feet. There goes my legs. Do you think it it shot him out into like a sausage skin that they then were able to give to the family?

[00:13:04] I mean, that's I mean, it is horrible and I can't cut anything because it's all live when we do these, but I don't think it did that. I do think it was slower than you'd want it to be. I don't think it's shooting anything anywhere, but it is industrial. It's presumably assembly line based. So yeah, maybe it just took you to the next step. In which case he was buried in a giant Tina's packaging. Yeah, they put him straight in the window. It went all the way to the whole process. That's terrible.

[00:13:31] Authorities rushed to the scene, but found the 19 year old dead inside the grinder. Okay, so they got it stopped at some point. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health will investigate the workers horrific death and try to figure out what could have suddenly triggered the meat grinder. Hmm. Was it the man whose wife he was sleeping with? Yeah, I do. In the movie, the machinist is also unclear, but it seems very much like someone turned it on. I always confuse machinist with the jacket. Do you remember the jacket?

[00:14:01] I do not recall. The Adrian Brody movie? Not at all. But the machinist is the Christian Bale. Where he loses a lot of weight. And the jacket is the Adrian Brody movie where he loses a lot of weight. And it came out right around the same time. What weight did he have to lose? I don't. I just remember they were both like skinny, crazy people. Yeah, machinist is a tough watch. Real tough watch. Yeah. Because he's got a lot of problems. It's insomnia. Yes. It's what's causing a lot of his issues. But he's also like OCD and always in like hypochondriac. There's a lot of stuff, but there's some grizzly factory stuff in that movie.

[00:14:30] The here and I'm going to turn this around. I'm going to show you my screen here. This is just to show you how correct you were. Yeah, that's 100% of the brand. I'm thinking of. Yep. Tina's burritos. This. When did this happen? This happened. This year? Like a few days ago. No, we can't have any of this audio come out. July 14th. We should we have like, should we redo a part where we're not talking about how he's getting buried and fucking Tina's this week? It is also. I mean, that is according to this Tina's burrito low label. There is some red hot beef.

[00:14:59] No, we can't have any of this audio. It says police don't suspect foul play, which was the first thing I would suspect immediately. Like I said, upon hearing the words come out of your mouth, either an inside job or some automation thing where like, oh, at 930, you know, we recycled the firmware and through whatever line of code it turned on when it was supposed to enter sleep mode or something. Yeah. We thought the factory was closed for the day. This was a good time to do it.

[00:15:27] It should be three in the fucking morning if you're going to do an IT related thing. But you have to imagine so many of these large factories probably have a ton of automation just for I don't know how you keep the price of these burritos so fucking low if everything's a man to begin with. Like, yeah, there has to be a pretty serious level of automation. And that's another Simpsons joke from the same cafeteria where she's like, we're using grade F meat.

[00:15:52] And then on the side of the grade F meat box, it says I think it says mostly circus animals, some filler. And so, yeah, you know, Tina's is the real surprise here is that Tina's was paying anyone to clean their machines. I feel like this is a company that just once a year, maybe you're spraying it out with some bleach. It might literally be something like that. It could be, you know, with the lax requirements of regulation and any corporations and the FDA

[00:16:20] and everything else having each year more of consumer protections eroded. It could literally be like twice a year. You'll get an inspection and we'll give you a week's notice. Yeah. And like the rest of the time, just do whatever you want. Yeah. With it. And if that was the case, you definitely wouldn't be like, you know, it'll make our get us an A on this health pass is grinding an employee. So I definitely would be either an accident or an or like a villain did something.

[00:16:48] I also think we're in the clear because this article does go out of its way to note that the victim has not been publicly identified. So this is a still a we still are. It got pretty rude fast. We did. That's true. Hey, you know what? This is business behind the bill. New fear unlocked. New fear unlocked. If either of us gets hired on SNL, the audio will get out. But if either of us gets hired at the Tina's burrito factory and ends up going through a meat grinder, please have at it. You have my permission, have our permission.

[00:17:16] But also I would kill for Tina's money at this point. I would die at this point for Tina money. But yeah, we I think we're probably fine. But just let us know per usual. Hey, are you enjoying this old episode of new fear unlocked? If so, don't forget that you can stay up to date with brand new commercial free episodes of it every week. The main shows off. Now, here's one of those ad breaks you could be avoiding.

[00:17:45] Well, this is where things get over the top, because then this is where the article tells us in a similar tragedy in twenty nineteen, a factory worker in Pennsylvania. Ding. Okay. Died after she was either dragged or fell into a meat grinder. It's I guess what we should do for our audience here. And you might not be able to. Do we have any information on the size of these things? Is it is it comically big? Is it like an Olympic sized swimming pool of blades?

[00:18:14] Well, this article, when you follow the link to the second article headline Pennsylvania woman killed by industrial meat grinder. There is a photo of what I assume is the meat ejection hoses. And those are not big. Well, you can't tell. You can't tell because they're zoomed in, but they're not. That's not the size of a wall. It's also from shutterstock. So I don't know. It could just be anything. It could just be any meat grinder. Because I would like to know the size because I do. I mean, listen, accidents happen.

[00:18:43] You almost lost your eye with the poop thing. Yep. I have a poop hook numerous times in my life. Like I was literally helping my dad move like this giant, like air compressor thing out of the back of his pickup truck when I was home. And it's an old fucking pickup truck. And the plastic, you know, liner that you put in pickup trucks. It's like almost kind of like a spray liner to like help keep them like not as rusty or whatever. Well, that on the tailgate was all cracked and broken.

[00:19:12] So it was hanging off in my gym shorts got attached to that. And it just like hung me up enough where I'm like now all the weight went to him and I couldn't pull it off my side. Oh, and it was all like lopsided and like it ended up being fine. I was strong enough to like hold it and then pull it off, like pull myself off. But I was like, if I wasn't, this got fucking bad fast all because of a stupid little thing. Like my shorts got snagged on this extra hanging piece of plastic. Yeah.

[00:19:38] And so imagine if the stakes are, you know, you're in a factory and it was like, oh, my sleeve or my hair or something got pulled into. And this is a problem I have with machines no matter what. This is why I think we're not going to be machining it up. Like I don't I don't know if I'm going to get like a Boston Dynamics robot as my butler because the problem with machines are is they don't know how strong they are.

[00:20:01] Like I like they don't know that hitting you with this force or pulling you with this force is going to like unforgivingly rip your arm off. I think that's something that engineers will be able to adjust for. No, I don't think you can. I think they've adjusted the machines to do the tasks at hand. Like I need to if you work at a machine that crushes metal into smaller pieces of metal, the machine is not built for that. It's built to crush metal.

[00:20:31] And if your hand got in there, you don't have a hand anymore. Right. She's not doing any wrong, which is why I don't like that these headlines are it was killed by the machine. Machine didn't want to do it. That's true. The machine, in a sense, is innocent. The machine is innocent, but we're going to have to reconsider that way of thinking once they become sentient. They're going to we're going to be able to file lawsuits against. No, because, you know, the robot lawyer is going to be better than our lawyers because robot lawyer will have all of the knowledge of history of law. You know, we're going to have a guy we can afford. True.

[00:21:01] It's not going to be we're going to have the public defender and they're going to have the the infinite calculations lawyer. Yeah. And our lawyer is going to have like a bias built in because they lost all their jobs to robot lawyers. And so the only person to be going to be able to get be drunk or a time is like a drunk robot bigot. This article tells us now, again, just keep in mind, this is this is 2019. So this is just a few years ago. We had another meat grinder accident.

[00:21:27] A Pennsylvania factory worker died when she reached into a meat grinder and either fell or was sucked into the machine. Officials said the 35 year old woman was operating the machine on a rolling ladder six feet off the ground at the economy locker storage co in Muncie Township Monday. When the tragedy struck the Lycoming County coroner said, I would like to know if that's normal. Why are you on a dangling? Are you dangling over this for part of your normal job?

[00:21:53] Why is there a meat grinder at the economy locker storage company? Yeah, I do wonder if it's a subsidiary of grade F meats. Was this? Yeah. Was this Tina's subcontractor or something? This doesn't sound like a place where meats are ground. This isn't a burrito factory. This isn't a sausage plant. This is a storage company where a woman, a factory worker reached into a meat grinder for some reason. Yeah, that's weird. No one witnessed the incident.

[00:22:21] So officials don't know if she lost her balance or got pulled in. Coroner Charles E. Kessling Jr. told the Williamsport. Well, if no one witnessed it, then dangling on a six foot ladder above it must be normal mode of operation. I guess. Because they've came to that conclusion on their own. No one saw it. Yeah. This was a horrible accident, Kessling said. Another employee found the woman in the grinder and called for help. She was dead when the Muncie township authorities arrived.

[00:22:46] It took firefighters 45 minutes to dissemble the machine and extract the woman's body. Her name has not yet been released. I appreciate that they did that. What? That they dissembled the machine and got her out of it? Yeah. I mean, for people who have access to high powered hoses, you figured they just would have like washed her out. But I liked it. They did their best to retrieve the lady. I mean, she clearly got pretty far into it. But again, my question here is what? Why was meat grinding happening at this facility? And there are no answers.

[00:23:16] Why is there one minute of video missing? From? Yeah. Just to show that no one pushed her. It's it's her very sturdily and confidently bouncing on the ladder over the meat grinder and then just hard cut to her. Hard cut to her. Smoking. Yeah. And there is nobody there in that missing minute. We assure you. And I do wonder, like, yeah, meat grinder. Is it D boned meat? They're put. I mean, this is a locker. So who knows? But I'm saying this is a storage place.

[00:23:44] But like, is it built for like crushing up meat bones and all? And then there's a separate section of the operation that like removes anything. It's not me. Or is it like meat that's been cut away from the bone first? And so it's only has the like RPMs to cycle through the meat. And so like if a person fell in, it might even jam the blades because it's like, oh, it's not built to go through a femur. You know, I don't I don't know. It's just questions.

[00:24:13] Well, here's an answer to one thing that I just had. I Googled economy locker storage company in Muncie Township. And the first thing that I'm opening up is economy locker dot com. The the site is titled economy locker dash baloney butcher meat. Oh, so we will. We'll service all your needs. Yeah. You want baloney made in a place to put it. We've got lockers and meat grinders. Nothing beats. Oh, God.

[00:24:43] Why is your phone? My watch is answering this question now. Oh, Jesus. The fucking robots are here. Damn it. It's grilling season. The website says nothing beats the classic combo of a baseball game and a delicious country store heart hot dog. It's a perfect way to enjoy the game. Juicy, savory and satisfying. And then there's a bunch of photos of different kinds of wrapped meats. So they're doing a lot of so it seems like they're they're leading meat foot forward on the website. They're not talking about their lockers and storage space. I don't think they have lockers and storage spaces.

[00:25:13] I think it's just a weirdly name. What's the name of the company again? The name of the company is economy locker LLC. So it could be like two guys like Dave economy and Steve locker. They loved me. And what they just when they put their minds together, they made this hot dog. I'm looking. I'm looking. I'm not having to do with lockers at all. I don't think it does. I went to so economy locker LLC seems to be the like, oh, the top down company. They own country store brand meats.

[00:25:42] Okay. Which is this meat company. So it's like a it's a corporation that's probably designed to legally protect them when people fall in. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got you. I think so. Because the product list here doesn't doesn't list any lockers or storage units. It's all packaged meat. So. Okay. Well, there's one mystery solved. Yep. Maybe I should. It says under their contact us. It says contact us better yet. See us in person. No, thank you.

[00:26:13] Yeah, I know. No, I saw you on the news already. Thank you very much. We love our customers. So feel free to visit us at the plant during normal business hours. I'm actually that is pretty wild. That's wild. That's just insane. I didn't even think that was legal. Like, are you allowed to just have people off the street? And it's like a place where you make food. This is also very funny in the map on the side that has the list of the Google map with the pin drop of where the factory is. The only other thing labeled on the map is the Geisinger Medical Center.

[00:26:43] Oh my God. Yeah, that's true. It's a meat factory and where to go when you fall. And a hospital, yeah. Yeah. So if you're planning your visit, you know you're within a pretty quick drive to the, you know. Well, I mean that was before they're going to shut down all these rural hospitals. So. That's true. Get hurt now while you can. The hospital's gone. The hospital's gone. So there was nothing else in that map. Unless they're sending enough meat grinder victims to that hospital. This is just like with the fireworks episode.

[00:27:10] You always just assume that these companies are keeping these hospitals afloat. I think I didn't assume in the, in the fireworks episode, there were the, the research was talking about how the fireworks companies were keeping the whole towns afloat. Yeah. I don't like how many of these meat grinder based articles have little images next to the article of ground meat. Cause I assume it's not the person, but it's. No, of course it's not the person. It's just an uncomfortable image.

[00:27:39] I'm not sure. Again, I'm not sure these machines have the torque to, to ground up a person in, in sneakers and, in, in denim and get it to the point where it's coming out those little, those little holes at the end. So I think these are just people went to like Getty images typed in meat grinder, not even just meat. Yeah. New meat. What do you call it when it comes out? But you know, ground meat.

[00:28:06] Well, it's not even ground cause it comes on those crazy lines. Like comes out like angel hair pasta. I want to bring this episode to a disgusting clothes by reading an article from glossy kitchen dot com titled what happens if you fall into a meat grinder colon the harrowing truth. Oh my God.

[00:28:33] So finally someone had the balls to say it and it was glossy kitchen dot com or whatever. They're, they're going to tell you what nobody wants to talk about. Yeah. The, the, what happens if you, and this is also from this year. So they clearly were looking at the internet and going, this seems like something we need to, there's too many people tempting fate. We need to let them know. They, they wanted to enter the cottage industry that is usually reserved for small law firms to make like weird SEO blog posts. Yeah.

[00:29:01] So this article begins when we think about kitchen appliances, a meat grinder is often a device that comes to mind for its functionality and importance in food preparation. I don't think of it as you must mean industrial kitchens. I don't know. Even these old Italian broads, very few of them are grinding at home. Truly my Nona did, but she's dead. So what does that tell you? Adios. She learned the harrowing truth. Yeah. Yeah. She was found wanting.

[00:29:29] However, while it may seem innocuous, the sheer mechanics of a meat grinder can lead to disastrous consequences. If one were to fall into it. Oh my God. I don't like that sentence either. I'm going to let you keep talking. But the idea now of someone bringing the first hand done meat grinder patent to the patent office, then being like the mechanics of this, you crazy for this one, dude. Like this is, this is going to go bad real fast. In this article, we will explore the anatomy of a meat grinder, the potential outcomes of

[00:29:58] such a horrific incident and the importance of safety measures to prevent unfortunate accidents. The anatomy of a meat grinder. To understand the gravity of falling into a meat grinder, you first must understand gravity. Oh, wow. No, I mean, oh, I thought they started snark. Okay. It says to understand the gravity of falling into a meat grinder. It's essential to know how this machine operates. A meat grinder typically consists of the following components. One, a hopper.

[00:30:24] The hopper is the top portion where the meat is first placed or the victim falls in this case. It serves as the entrance for the meat. It serves as the entrance for the meat. What a sentence. And is generally designed to hold a significant amount of meat at once. Sure. Like a whole person. Then there's the auger. Underneath the hopper lies the auger, a spiral shaped metal tool that moves the meat down into the grinding plate. It plays a crucial role in pushing the meat forward and into the blades.

[00:30:54] Yeah. So, so far you're right, Ed. I see nothing here about bones, crushing. Yeah. This is purely meat processing. Yeah. Part three, the grinding plate. The grinding plate sounds like a gay bar, but it also has holes of various sizes through which the meat is forced after being cut by the blades. So that is, it is interesting to hear this because in my mind it was once you fall on the hopper, it's blade city USA.

[00:31:22] But turns out there is this like place you're going. Hell. Like you go in and then the auger is gonna, even if it's like cylindrical, the auger is like taking you to a wall of blades. Yes. Like the blade portion might be just before it becomes the, the angel hair we see. Yes. The grinding plate has holes of various sizes through which the meat is forced after being cut by the blades. So, okay. No, the auger pushes you through the blades. Then the grinding plate has the holes. Oh, okay.

[00:31:51] So there is, so there is a, a, a bed of blades. Yes. Although, yeah, the way that they've stacked these is a little bit, um, out of order, I think because this, because number two is the auger that pushes the meat forward into the blades. The grinding plate is where the meat is forced after being cut by the blades. The size of these holes determines the coarseness of the ground meat from finely minced to chunky. Yeah. And then here they have four blades.

[00:32:18] The blades are sharp rotating instruments that slice and cut the meat as it passes through the grinding plate. Okay. Okay. These blades are designed specifically for their role and can easily cause severe injury. Yeah. Part five, the discharge chute. Finally, the processed meat exits through the discharge chute at the bottom of the grinder. This is where the ground meat collects ready to be packaged or cooked or investigated by the police. Yeah, for real.

[00:32:46] The mechanics of a meat grinder. Understanding how these components work together provides insight into the potential severity of an accident. Here's a quick overview. When meat is placed in the hopper, the auger immediately begins to push it towards the blades. As it moves, the meat is cut by the blades and pushed into the grinding plate. Depending on the speed and power of the grinder, this process can be very rapid. Yeah. But apparently not rapid enough to keep you from screaming for help as it happens. Well, I think you're...

[00:33:15] Unless you fall in face first, you know? You're getting augered down towards the plate. Yeah. I think realistically, I just don't think these machines are designed for like femurs and leg bones. And so you, you unfortunately are going to have a little time as you slow down this auger process. Who doesn't really... Who? It doesn't really know how to maybe handle that.

[00:33:42] So it kind of gunks up the gears, no pun intended, which gives you a little bit more of time to be like, oh, help, turn it off. Gunking up the gears is such a funny way to describe being pulverized alive. I think it just looks... Oh boy, gunked up the gears. I mean... But that brings us to the next section here. The dangers of... Degunking. The dangers of falling into a meat grinder. Okay. Falling into a meat grinder is not a common occurrence, but the implications are catastrophic.

[00:34:11] Here's what could happen. Number one, immediate injury. Oh yeah. The first point of impact would inevitably be the auger. The spiral shape of the auger not only pulls meat in, but would also do the same to any object or body part that enters it. An individual falling into a meat grinder would be drawn into the auger almost instantaneously. Yeah, immediately sucked into the auger. Yeah, the auger's there to catch it and keep things moving. Number two, damage from the blades.

[00:34:39] As the person is pulled towards the blades by the auger, the potential for injury escalates. I would say so. The blades are sharp and vicious, designed to process meat efficiently. Skin, muscles, and tendons would be severed upon contact, resulting in life-threatening laceration. Number three, loss of limbs. In a scenario where an arm or a leg comes into contact with the blades, amputation could occur in seconds. Yeah.

[00:35:07] The meat grinder does not discriminate. The sharpness and speed of the blades would result in complete evisceration of any limb trapped inside. This is what I was saying earlier about how robots don't know their own strength. I know. You know what I mean? They're just going to be pulling off limbs. They don't care. They don't know. Number four, potential fatality. Any accident involving a meat grinder could result in fatal injuries.

[00:35:30] Severe blood loss, shock, and the extent of internal injuries would drastically reduce chances of survival, especially if medical help is not immediately available. And then the article takes us into the emergency response in the event of an accident. Uh, number one, stop the grinder. You got to. You got to do it. I mean, just out of, out of politeness. No, you're not going to go to the other side and try and catch them. No. Number, number two is remove the individual if safe.

[00:35:59] If it's safe to do so, attempt to extract the individual from the grinder. However, do not put yourself in harm's way. It would be wise to call for emergency medical assistance before attempting to remove anyone. Three, control the bleeding. If the individual is conscious and bleeding, apply pressure to control it. Use cloth or bandages, but be careful not to cause further injury, which compared to whatever injury the meat grinder dished out, I think you're fine. Yeah.

[00:36:28] And then call for help and then preventative safety measures. I mean, heavy machinery is just so scary. I, when I was just like last week, I was, uh, I went into my buddy's shop and he was working on a, like a hundred ton press and his back was to me. And so I was like, Oh, I'll just wait till they're done. Whatever they're doing. I don't, they didn't know I was going to be there. So I didn't want to be like, Hey Rob. And then he turns and now he's got a hundred ton press slamming down on something that shouldn't or blah, blah, blah. So same thing.

[00:36:58] You gotta just be smart about a lot of shit where you're, if you're entering somewhere, just be like, Hey, what's that's not interrupt this person right now. Yeah. This article concludes that falling into a meat grinder is a rare yet horrific thought that underscores the importance of kitchen safety. I don't like that. It's thought you mean occurrence. Yeah. I mean, um, these things be a rare, but specific thought you have and then decide to write an article about, but I think it would be an occurrence by taking precautions and honoring the machine's potential danger.

[00:37:23] We can appreciate the meat grinder, not just as a tool, but as a device that requires respect and care in its operation. This was written by a meat grinder. Let's embrace safety and keep the kitchen a place for nourishment rather than danger. Okay. Again, what a note to end on. Let's keep the kitchen a place for nourishment rather than danger. You know, the editor took out for once. Yeah. It was like, listen, not everyone has the same life you have. There is.

[00:37:50] I think, I think something we're learning from this is that heavy machinery will definitely be a main episode at some point. Oh my God. We'll do heavy machinery for sure. And workplace accidents. We always talk about probably being a multi part. Like there was, there was, I listened to some like weird history engineering podcast like a couple of years, like two years ago or something about one of the things that America was desperate to get its hands on from Germany after the war was like the Nazis for one. Yeah. No, no.

[00:38:19] I mean, we literally project paperclip. Yeah. Give a shit. Many of them. Yeah. We took plenty. But one of the reasons we took these people was because they had things like, I can't, it's like they were, so you know how you can make a mold? Like you can like, so you have a mold that makes, let's say a sword and it's five feet long and you fill it with hot shit and it stamps it down and blah, blah, blah. So they were basically like making molds.

[00:38:44] And I'm fucking this all up, but I will research it if we're going to talk about it in a future episode because it was so interesting is they had like football field size molds that they were doing like whole Messerschmitt aircraft, like wings that they're all one piece of aluminum and stuff that were no exaggeration. Like the size of whole factories to just do the one giant operation. And you're saying the Germans had figured this out, but we had it. Yeah. No. Yeah. They, this was the newest technology. Okay. Anyone's ever seen.

[00:39:13] And I think some of them are still in use today, but it was something, I don't even know how if we just, I don't even know what the situation was, what we like, how we use them or whatever. But it's the reason that they were, America was making a ton of shit during the war because we weren't being bombed every fucking night. So we were able to just like churn out tanks and shit, but they were doing stuff that was crazy. They were like, Hey, you know how you have Rosie, the riveter riveting these 5 million pieces on.

[00:39:42] What if you just stamped the whole fucking vehicle on one thing? Yeah. It was like crazy. But the, the sheer size of these technically machines was overwhelming to hear about like, holy shit. Some of those like megalophobia things where like, if you saw it, you would almost be. Yeah. Dwarped and scared of it. Like I was, cause I think about how Rudy's brother dies in the beginning of Rudy and that like smelting accident or whatever. He meant Rudy's friend.

[00:40:10] And I'm like, imagine if that smelting was like episode one level gigantic. The entire building. Yeah. And I'm like, holy smoke. So I'm sure 95% of what I just said there was like misremembered and inaccurate about all the players involved. But I do know that they had some gigantic factories that sound like they're all on meth from that episode we did too. So they're like not sleeping, operating these giant plane stamping machines. Well, we'll have to get into it. Yeah. We'll find some, we'll find some factory accidents for sure. Yeah.

[00:40:39] So, but for this episode, I think that that about does it for us. This has been an incredibly disgusting descent into the hell of industrial meat grinder accidents. It was a quick step into hell. Weirdly based on what we said is going to confirm our appearances there. RIP God bless to the burrito maven and the, the locker factory incident. Yeah. Those are definitely RIP God blesses. It seems like a real shit way to die.

[00:41:08] And you know, it wasn't a livable wage. No, no. That's why they were hoping to be put into the sausage casing because they can't afford a fucking casket at these rates. Again, I'm sorry. This is, we do genuinely feel bad for the people involved who had, who did nothing wrong and are victims of circumstance. Before we get yelled at, I think it's time for me to say, I'm Chris Cullari. And I'm, I'm not telling you my name. This has been New Fear Unlocked. We'll talk to you next time. Bye bye. Bye bye.

[00:41:38] The theme song may say this show has no name, but as you know, it actually has a name. New fear unlocked. The thing you guys always say, that's the name. There's nothing more after this. Thanks for coming.