North Carolina teen falls into wood chipper, dies during first day of work

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Teen pulled into wood chipper dies in N.C.

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A teen has died in North Carolina after he was pulled into a wood chipper on his first day on the job.

Mason Cox, 19, was putting tree limbs into the wood chipper outside a job site in Kings Mountain when business owner Jon Crawford and other workers heard the machine get bogged down.

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