{"id":337130,"date":"2026-07-11T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:51:11","slug":"man-killed-after-being-trapped-in-conveyor-belt-in-deerfield-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337130\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after being trapped in conveyor belt in Deerfield Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/conveyor belt death.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"According to the initial investigation, a worker become trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt while attempting to address an issue with a large production machine. The incident happened at 1442 West Newport Center Drive in Deerfield Beach on Friday, July 10, 2026.\" alt=\"According to the initial investigation, a worker become trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt while attempting to address an issue with a large production machine. The incident happened at 1442 West Newport Center Drive in Deerfield Beach on Friday, July 10, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        According to the initial investigation, a worker become trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt while attempting to address an issue with a large production machine. The incident happened at 1442 West Newport Center Drive in Deerfield Beach on Friday, July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            CBS News Miami | July 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/deerfield-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deerfield Beach<\/a> after a man was killed when he became trapped in a conveyor belt at a business early Friday morning, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/broward-sheriffs-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Fire Rescue<\/a>, units responded to reports of an industrial accident at 1442 West Newport Center Drive in Deerfield Beach around 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers said the incident occurred at a facility that is used for the mass production of food products.<\/p>\n<p>According to the initial investigation, a man had become trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt while attempting to address an issue with a large production machine.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rapid response by first responders, the unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This report was produced by Miami Herald news partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News Miami.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the initial investigation, a worker become trapped beneath the hopper arm of a conveyor belt while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-337130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}