Man killed in North Georgia workplace accident

A 51-year-old man was killed on the job Monday night after getting “caught in a piece of machinery,” officials said.

Jesus Pimentel, an employee of Shaw Industries in Dalton, got caught between a moving part of a machine and a stationary steel I-beam, Whitfield County Coroner Greg Bates said. Pimentel was pronounced dead at the scene.

“I suspect the official cause of death will be blunt-force trauma to the head,” Bates said. “From what we were told, he was apparently trying to get a piece of carpet or something out of the machine and another worker threw him a piece of rope, and when he bent over to get the rope, that was when he got caught in the machine.”