This ABC News report actually made me sick at my stomach as I read it today because “I Love Fortune Cookies;” and I eat a lot of them. An employee of the Wonton Food Corporation at 2902 Caroline Street, Houston, Texas, made a gruesome discovery of a fellow employee who was dead inside a fortune cookie factory machine on Sunday.
ABC News was advised by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences who revealed the identity of the employee as Elmer Oscar Barrera, 26, and saying, “The cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries; and it was ruled as an accident.
Family members of Barrera could not be reached for a comment by ABC News.
Houston police informed ABC News there was no reason to suspect foul play in the case.
The police first responded to a call at 12:10 p.m. on Sunday to attend the Houston branch of the Wonton Food Company at 2902 Caroline Street, according to an earlier statement.
The Statement read, “The victim, an employee of the Wonton Food Corporation at the above address, was operating an industrial dough mixer; and a fellow employee found the man deceased in the machine.”
The Wonton Food Company operates facilities in New York, Texas and Tennessee, where they manufacture food products including noodles and wonton wrappers; and they’re one of the leading fortune cookie makers in the country and their New York headquarters alone makes around 4 million cookies a day; and a smaller number in their Houston factory location.
The company did not respond immediately to calls and emails for comment.
Writer of this article is Barbara Kasey Smith and it is based on an ABC News report.
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