A New Jersey landscaper was “pulled into” a woodchipper known as the “Intimidator” at a cemetery, sending him through and shredding the man to death after the “defective” machine malfunctioned, a lawsuit from his family says.
The estate of Eonias Mateo-Perez, 22, is suing Michigan-based equipment company Bandit Industries for the June 2024 accident, claiming the “Intimidator” chipper he was using “lacked adequate warnings, lacked features necessary to make it safe for its intended use, contained design features which made it unsafe for its intended purpose, was designed in such a way that the Woodchipper did not properly shut off, and did not prevent a user being drawn into the machine,” according to his family’s legal complaint, which was filed in Hunterdon County superior court.
Mateo-Perez was doing landscaping work at Saint Magdalen Cemetery in Flemington as an employee for the lawn care company William LaRue Services when he was killed, his estate says…