Frozen Pizza Factory Worker Crushed to Death by Robotic Machine in ‘Terrible’ Accident

“Life-saving measures were attempted,” the West Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement

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  • Robert Cherone, 45, reportedly died while working at a Palermo’s Pizza manufacturing facility on Wednesday, Sept. 17
  • The employee was crushed by a robotic machine, according to reports citing the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office,
  • Life-saving measures were attempted, but Cherone was pronounced dead at the scene, per the West Milwaukee Police Department

A pizza factory worker in Wisconsin is dead after he was reportedly crushed by a robotic machine.

Robert Cherone, 45, died while working at a Palermo’s Pizza manufacturing facility in West Milwaukee on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 17, according to a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office report cited by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,Wisconsin Public Radio, and CBS 58.

The West Milwaukee Police Department confirmed in a release that its officers attended the scene of the incident alongside the Milwaukee Fire Department following a report of an industrial accident…

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