JOHOR BAHRU: A machine operator died after falling into a grinder at a mosaic factory at Nusa Cemerlang Industrial Park, near Iskandar Puteri, yesterday.
Iskandar Puteri police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said Fenddy Asim, 19, died from head and shoulder injuries.
He said the incident occurred at about 11.30am when Fenddy was cleaning the inside of the grinder when it suddenly rotated, causing him to fall into it.
“A colleague who witnessed the incident quickly switched off the machine and with the help of another worker, removed the victim from the machine,” he said in a statement today.
Fenddy was taken to a nearby clinic but was pronounced dead. His body wasn sent to Sultanah Aminah Hospital for a post-mortem.