Worker dies after getting trapped in machine at California burrito factory, authorities say

VERNON, Calif. -- An probe was underway aft a idiosyncratic died astatine a California mill that makes a well-known marque of frozen burritos.

The tragic incidental happened astir 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which said the telephone came successful arsenic an injured idiosyncratic successful the room of the Tina's Burritos mill successful Vernon.

Details astir the incidental stay limited, but the occurrence section said erstwhile they arrived, they recovered the idiosyncratic trapped successful a imaginable food-mixing machine. That idiosyncratic was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

People who appeared to beryllium mill workers could beryllium seen successful an affectional authorities successful a seating country extracurricular the mill aft the incident.

Vernon constabulary officers were inactive connected country respective hours later, talking to evident employees and they effort to fig retired what precisely happened.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is besides expected to statesman their probe into the worker's decease immoderate clip Monday.