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Machine operator crushed to death by palletizer at Schreiber Foods, Carthage MO
S5 · ~Feb 2024 · Robot Palletizer (Dallas) · Carthage, MO, USA
Record
| Company | Robot Palletizer (Dallas) |
| Industry | Warehouse automation |
| Type(s) | fatality |
| Date | ~Feb 2024 (month precision) |
| Time of day | 15:44 CT |
| Location | Carthage, MO, USA · Schreiber Foods plant |
| Severity | (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | 1 fatality, 1 palletizer |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source |
Summary
A 48-year-old operator was crushed and killed by an automated palletizer sweeper arm at Schreiber Foods in Carthage, Missouri (Feb 6, 2024); OSHA cited guarding/lockout failures. Vendor of the palletizer is not named in the OSHA record.
Primary source
Publisher: OSHA · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~Feb 2024 | Machine operator crushed to death by palletizer at Schreiber Foods, Carthage MO | OSHA | OSHA |
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