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Mechanic crushed to death at Phillipsburg plant; family seeks answers

Family says they were given little information and allege a delayed emergency response after a 52-year-old mechanic was trapped by a casting machine.

Published Oct 14, 2026, 2:38 PM EDT | LehighValleyLive

The brother of a 52-year-old mechanic who was crushed to death by a casting machine at a pipe manufacturing company in Phillipsburg last week said his family had been given little information about what happened.

Henry Antonio Marmol Martinez, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was working at McWane Ductile – New Jersey at about 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 when he got trapped by the machine, according to his younger brother Raymundo Perez.