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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Death by Wool on This Day in History

This Day in History: On this day in 1987, Paul G. Thomas, 47, co-owner of a wool mill in Thompson, Connecticut, fell into a machine winding yarn between spools, was wrapped in approximately 800 yards of yarn and suffocated.

Something similar happened more recently in Australia. On January 2022, a shearing shed worker died after becoming caught in a wool press. The man was reportedly placing wool into a wool press when he was caught in the machinery and killed. Read more here.

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