Warehouse Accident Kills 15 Workers
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From Times Wire Reports
Shelves stacked high with garlic collapsed and killed 15 workers at a cold-storage warehouse in central China, news reports said.
The accident in the city of Zhengzhou buried more than 30 employees under a pile of garlic shoots and broken shelving, the Beijing Times and other newspapers reported.
The official New China News Agency said another 19 people were hospitalized. The workers were stacking produce at Chenzhai Cold Storage when shelves piled 30 feet high with garlic shoots collapsed, the reports said.
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