By Associated Press, 6/11/02

NEW YORK (AP) An industrial food-processing machine that was cutting cabbage spun out of control, crushing one man to death, severing another man's arm and injuring two others, police said.

Jose Chagulia, a 39-year-old Queens resident, was killed early Monday when a rotating drum broke loose from its base as it chopped cabbage for coleslaw, pinning him against a wall, officials said.

The man with the severed arm and the two other injured men one with a serious leg wound and one with a head cut were hospitalized Monday, police spokeswoman Carmen Melendez said. Their names and conditions were not released.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was investigating the incident.