# Man crushed to death after falling into tortilla mixing machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807 "2011-01-24T17:30:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/21 "2011-01-24T19:06:25Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > He was one of those people that dive into their work head first. Agreed, he was really into it. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/22 "2011-01-24T19:15:37Z")
How does a tortilla mixing machine work? I’m picturing a giant bowl of goo with big paddles turning in it and a small nozzle at the bottom to squirt a bolus onto a conveyor belt. What part of that apparatus proved deadly? Or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/23 "2011-01-24T19:23:33Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > How does a tortilla mixing machine work? I’m picturing a giant bowl of goo with big paddles turning in it and a small nozzle at the bottom to squirt a bolus onto a conveyor belt. What part of that apparatus proved deadly? Or am I missing something? It was probably something like [this.](http://www.vmi-mixer.com/ml/images/content/catalogue/BVP_Industrielle/Cuve_refroidie/__frostmix_370.jpg) It kneads dough. And they were using it at a tortilla factory, hence “tortilla mixer”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/24 "2011-01-24T19:25:50Z")
Except it probably had a large dough hook instead of paddles. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/25 "2011-01-24T19:28:31Z")
This somehow leaves me flat. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/26 "2011-01-24T19:30:49Z")
Didn’t this happen in an episode of **Six Feet Under**? Maybe it was a bread dough mixer. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/27 "2011-01-24T19:31:46Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Oh, you better believe that’s a Reported. It’s nacho job to be a junior mod. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/28 "2011-01-24T19:40:54Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I just emailed that thread to the police. Don’t bother – I happen to know there’s a molé in the police force. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/29 "2011-01-24T20:20:16Z")
::yawn:: So. . .another reported sighting of Jesus in a tortilla? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/30 "2011-01-24T20:32:30Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > He was one of those people that dive into their work head first. Naw, Like all dead end jobs, his heart wasnt in it. But, as reality slowly sank in, he was drawn into it. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/31 "2011-01-24T20:36:29Z")
Looks like he survived although he’s [a bit disfigured](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4m143Pemx1qzcvgco1_400.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/32 "2011-01-24T20:49:32Z")
“Doh!” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/33 "2011-01-24T21:28:42Z")
Reminds me of the butcher who backed into his sausage grinder and ended up getting a little behind in his work. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/34 "2011-01-24T21:56:13Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Reminds me of the butcher who backed into his sausage grinder and ended up getting a little behind in his work. Or the butcher’s assistant who refused to climb a tall ladder to retrieve someone’s order. He said the steaks were too high. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/35 "2011-01-24T21:58:27Z")
I hear if you stuff this companies tortillas with the right meat the combination is the cat’s meow… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/36 "2011-01-24T22:46:04Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > “Police don’t suspect foul play”? Do people randomly go around pushing their co-workers into tortilla machines? Or does someone do this for hire because he “kneads” the dough? No. No foul play. But if these were chicken fajitas well… come on everybody! You know the next line. Sing along, ok? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/37 "2011-01-24T22:47:13Z")
Juan down … ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/38 "2011-01-24T23:07:25Z")
This story is a-maize-ing. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/39 "2011-01-24T23:10:41Z")
I made an off-color joke here once following an incident in which the subject of my bit of humor didn’t even DIE. I got called a cunt. I \<3 this thread. But you’re all bad people who deserve to be called many horrible names. Just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-crushed-to-death-after-falling-into-tortilla-mixing-machine/568807/40 "2011-01-25T00:38:39Z")
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