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Another Accidental Death In Blue Creek
posted (April 23, 2013)
Yesterday afternoon there was another accidental death in the rural industrial farming community of Blue Creek. At around 2:30 pm, 18 year old Clayton REMPEL was washing his tractor when he got electrocuted. Police report that he was operating an electrical power wash machine, washing a tractor when he received a massive electrical shock. He was found ten minutes later badly burnt but still alive and rushed airplane to Medical Associates in Belize City, where he died while undergoing treatment.

Viewers will recall that last week in Blue Creek, a 7 year old boy suffocated when he was sucked to the bottom of a 15 tonne rice bin.

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