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Conn. boy killed helping dad with wood chipper
April 10, 2012
(CBS/AP) SALEM, Conn. - Connecticut state police say a 6-year-old boy has died in a wood chipper accident while helping his father on a landscaping job during school vacation week.

Lt. J. Paul Vance says Jeffrey Bourgeois was putting a branch into the chipper Tuesday morning in Salem when it pulled him into the machine after his father turned his back for a moment. Vance says Jeffrey had gone to work with his father and two older siblings.

The boy's father runs a Salem landscaping business and was doing a job when the accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. Jeffrey
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