A 19-year-old man was killed when he fell into a meat grinder at a Vernon food processing facility Sunday night.
The man, whose name has not been released, was a member of the sanitation crew at Tina’s Burritos in the 2600 block of Vernon Avenue, according to Lt. Martinez with the Vernon Police Department.
At about 9:30 p.m., he fell into a meat grinder in what’s being described as an industrial accident.
The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is expected to be at the facility on Monday.
Vernon is a city five miles south of downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles County.
Alberto Mendez contributed to this report.