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Beverage worker injured by machine

By Times staff writer

© St. Petersburg Times, published August 17, 2002


DADE CITY -- An accident at Pasco Beverage Co. on Friday afternoon left a worker with two broken legs.

DADE CITY -- An accident at Pasco Beverage Co. on Friday afternoon left a worker with two broken legs.

County emergency workers said the man got caught in a crushing machine about 4:45 p.m. He suffered "crushing-type" injuries to both legs, they said.

The man was flown to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa.

No further information was available on his condition or his identity.

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