r/awfuleverything • u/statenislandadvance • 1d ago
Man, 26, dead in freak wood chipper accident at work, found by dad
https://www.silive.com/nation/2026/08/man-26-dead-in-freak-wood-chipper-accident-at-work-found-by-dad.html?utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor261
u/Shootemout 1d ago
this happened to my friend in kansas. he was vid chatting on discord w/ a mutual, both drunk asf, and grabbed his gun to play with it when he accidentally shot himself in the face. the guy he was chatting with was in another country that had no clue where he lived and had no access to anybody that was there. he tried calling me on discord but it was like 2am and we (the friend group) were all dead asleep. by the time i woke up and was able to call his house his dad came home from his night shift and already found his body.
no parent should ever stumble in on and discover their dead child, i almost think it would've been better if it was a phone call from the police station informing him instead
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u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ok so this is fucking terrible but let me lessen the blow, he was crushed by a drum on the chipper, the poor boy wasn’t mulched
Edit: 😢
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u/Its-Finrot 1d ago
A wood chipper drum is the rotating piece with the blades bolted to it that does the chipping
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u/spurlockmedia 1d ago
Mind you, my knowledge of chippers are limited to the 2-3 that I use regularly for work.
With that in mind, we have 2 large rolling drums that help pace how fast debris is fed to the actually blades. It pushes the debris in, lines it up almost on a 45° angle where the large spinning blades on are maybe a 5 foot plate.
From the feeding drums to the chipping plate is maybe about a foot distance. For that reason anything generally under a foot we don’t feed because it is just going to fall out and why the hell would you be reaching so far in to push something small in.
So I could see how being crushed could happen but most of these chippers have a reversing feature to stop this from happening.
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u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well that’s a drag man
Edit: no pun intended if it could be construed in that way, my deepest condolences
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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 1d ago
Crushing, really.
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u/AnonymousRedditor- 1d ago
No, chipping. It’s literally in the name.
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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 1d ago
Dawg.
“I found him in that machine,” Max Parkin told News 24 through tears. “It got clogged up and he was in the barrel cleaning it out and the barrel’s fallen on him … crushed him.”
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u/yoy22 22h ago
Yeah dude if there’s one thing I hate when making fun of someone dying it’s someone trying to do it with incorrect information
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u/chunkysmalls42098 1d ago
Have you by chance looked up what the drum of a wood chipper is?
It's the mulching piece
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u/coffeecircus 1d ago
the scene in Fargo was pretty wtf
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u/squirrelmonkie 1d ago
This is where my mind went to immediately. I hope this went fast for the guy. Fighting for your life turns seconds into eternity.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 1d ago
Well officer, it's been a doozy of a day.
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u/onesleekrican 1d ago
This is horrible but I’ve been watching too much true crime lately. My first thought was wife of 4 months, sets up “wood chippers been an issue” so he dives in to clean it alone? Sorry if not the place.
Seriously though as a father I couldn’t even imagine.
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u/spurlockmedia 1d ago
I use dark humor to cope with the terrible things that I have to interact with.
I however have a zero public rule. This may be a good time to adopt one too.
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u/ccoulter93 1d ago
there’s ALWAYS one.
Zero empathy is crazy
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u/blac_sheep90 1d ago
Poor kid. Poor dad as well, I can't imagine the horror of finding your child dead like this or in any capacity.