Two months after he went missing from his job, the Spartanburg County Coroner has determined that Duncan (Alex) Burrell Gordon died when he fell into the plastics shredding machine on which he was working.
The 20-year-old disappeared in the middle of his overnight shift at the Industrial Recycling and Recovery plant in Greer, South Carolina on May 5. The man’s father, Mike Gordon, the supervisor on duty at the plant when the incident occurred, drove the search for his son over the course of the ensuing month.
The machine on which Gordon was working was inspected on four separate occasions in the month after his disappearance. Immediately by his father, then by a representative of the sheriff’s office. Next sheriff’s investigators brought in a cadaver K-9 dog which was alerted to human remains under the conveyor belt of the machine. On June 12, more than a month later, the coroner’s office was called in to take over the investigation.
Roughly two ounces of material consisting of human fat, and particles of skin and bone were retrieved from the machine and later identified using DNA comparison to be the remains of Alex Gordon.
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