{"id":559194,"date":"2026-08-04T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559194\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:48:10","slug":"person-dies-after-being-trapped-in-machine-at-otahuhu-meat-processing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559194\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being trapped in machine at \u014ct\u0101huhu meat processing plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>4 Aug, 2026 08:11 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to Auckland Meat Processors facility late last night. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after becoming trapped in a machine at a meat processing plant in the Auckland suburb of \u014ct\u0101huhu late last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Emergency services were called to a report that a person had been seriously injured at the Auckland Meat Processors facility on Portage Rd around 10.30pm, but<br \/>\n         they were pronounced dead at the scene.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency\u2019s northern shift manager last night said rescue crews helped  ambulance officers. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police at the scene of a fatal workplace accident on Portage Rd in \u014ct\u0101huhu overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police at the scene of a fatal workplace accident on Portage Rd in \u014ct\u0101huhu overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said crews were still at the plant just after 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 4 Aug, 2026 08:11 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,51,16717,682,6179,7126,42,78,685,4507,32515,3822,43,2551,4056,4885,70675,17294,94401,40,38,41,39,8528],"class_list":["post-559194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-becoming","tag-being","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-last","tag-late","tag-machine","tag-meat","tag-news","tag-night","tag-person","tag-plant","tag-processing","tag-suburb","tag-thuhu","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}