Mahamadou Dansogo (left) was killed after becoming caught in a machine inside a Brooklyn bakery’s walk-in freezer (Pictures: CBS New York/Tidiame Wague)
The bakery worker discovered dead in a walk-in freezer was killed by blunt force injuries after he was caught in the gears of a machine, officials said.
Mahamadou Dansogo’s death was officially ruled an accident by the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The employee at Beigel’s Bakery in Brooklyn died after he became caught in a machine inside the facility’s walk-in freezer. He suffered blunt force injuries to his head, torso, and extremities, a representative for the medical examiner told Metro.co.uk.
‘They don’t tell me how the machine did that,’ Dansogo’s uncle Tidiane Wague told the New York Daily News. ‘The autopsy come out — no drugs involved, no drinks.’
Dansogo worked at Beigel’s Bakery in East Flatbush, Brooklyn (Picture: CBS New York)
Dansogo, 33, was an immigrant from Mali. He worked at Beigel’s to send money home to his family in Africa. He is survived by a wife and five children.
Wague told the Daily News that he spoke with Dansogo’s wife and mother in Mali after the accident, and they are doing ‘okay.’
Investigators believe Dansogo became caught in the machine around 3am on the morning of November 4. His body was discovered about five hours later around 8am.
‘We are devastated by the loss of our employee in this accident,’ manager David Greenberg told ABC7 immediately after the discovery on Friday morning. ‘The family has been notified and we extended our deepest condolences to them.’
Beigel’s is a popular kosher bakery in south Brooklyn known for their iconic black-and-white cookies. The company moved to New York City from Poland in 1949.
The Beigel’s facility is located on the border of East Flatbush and Canarsie. The 50,000 square foot facility features large industrial precision ovens and other machinery, which the bakery says ‘allow us to reproduce our old-world recipes and quality on a grand scale.’
Beigel’s products are frequently sold at major supermarkets, including Wegmans, Costco, and Fairway.
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Mahamadou Dansogo’s death was officially ruled an accident.
