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Work Accident Claims Life

PEWAUKEE, WI—A 52-year-old employee at an xpedx facility was killed Oct. 1 after getting crushed by a five-foot stack of paper. According to the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department, Andrew Blechacz was working inside the warehouse when a shelving unit stacked with pallets of copy paper toppled over and trapped him. Emergency medical services, fire crews, employees and sheriff's department deputies worked unsuccessfully to save the victim.