HELENA, Ala. — A female employee at ABC Polymer Industries, LLC, in Helena, was killed in a possible industrial accident.
According to Helena Police, the incident happened around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday. The employee was reportedly pulled into an industrial machine and died.
Police and the Shelby County Coroner's Office are investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman's death.
The coroner has yet to identify the victim.
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Worker pulled into machine, killed at Helena business
Updated on August 17, 2017
By Carol Robinson
A 45-year-old woman has been identified as the worker killed Wednesday night in an industrial accident in Shelby County.
The Shelby County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Eva Saenz. She lived in Alabaster.
Shelby County 911 received an emergency call from ABC Polymer at 545 Elm Street in Helena at 6:41 p.m., said Helena Police Chief Pete Folmar. Once on the scene, Helena police and firefighters found Saenz had been pulled into an industrial machine.
Fire medics pronounced her dead on the scene. Folmar said no foul play is suspected in her death.
The victim's body has been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for an autopsy. "Our deepest condolences go out to the family of the employee,'' Folmar said in a news release.
Founded in September 1994 as Alabama Bag Company, ABC Polymer Industries, LLC is a diversified plastics manufacturing company located just outside Birmingham, Alabama. ABC is a fully integrated manufacturer, whose primary products include circular woven polypropylene fabric, polypropylene fiber, polyethylene blown film, fibrillated polypropylene yarn, and reprocessed polypropylene resin. The reprocessing division also handles scrap trading & recycling. In addition, ABC Polymer is an importer/distributor of Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers also known as bulk bags.
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Alabama woman, 45, is tragically killed at work after being sucked into an industrial machine and getting caught in the roller at a plastics factory
- Eva Saenz, 45, died Wednesday at ABC Polymer Industries LLC in Alabama
- Officials say Saenz was sucked into an industrial machine after getting caught in the roller at the plastics factory
- The coroner said she was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force injuries
- Authorities say no foul play is suspected and an autopsy will be conducted
- The ABC Polymer factory makes extruded polypropylene products including, bulk bags, synthetic snow, fibrillated yarns, and specific fibers for concrete
By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com
Updated: 21:07 EDT, 17 August 2017
A 45-year-old woman was killed at work after being sucked into an industrial machine and getting caught in the roller at a plastics factory, police say.
Eva Saenz was working at ABC Polymer Industries LLC in Shelby County, Alabama when the tragic accident occurred Wednesday, according to Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans.
'It just appears that she was working next to the rollers and bent down to cut some of the plastic, I believe, with a box cutter and actually got pulled up into the rollers,' Evans said.
Eva Saenz was working at ABC Polymer Industries LLC in Shelby County, Alabama when she was killed after being sucked into an industrial machine and getting caught in the roller at the plastics factory
The coroner said Saenz, who lived in Alabaster, was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force injuries.
The fire department and police officers both responded to the factory after a 911 call was placed from the company at 6.41pm.
'Upon arrival, responders found a female employee that has been pulled into an industrial machine,' the police department told the Helena Reporter.
The coroner said Saenz, who lived in Alabaster, was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force injuries. Authorities say no foul play is suspected in her death at the factory and that an autopsy will be conducted
Fire medics determined that the victim was deceased and the Shelby County Coroner's office was notified.'
Authorities say no foul play is suspected in her death and that an autopsy will be conducted.
The ABC Polymer factory makes extruded polypropylene products including, bulk bags, synthetic snow, fibrillated yarns, and specific fibers for concrete.