A poultry processing worker, Sarel Singh, 34, was killed instantly when he was sucked into a machine and decapitated in an accident at a factory in Melbourne, Australia.
This factory has been under investigation over claims of unlawful and unethical treatment of its majority migrant workforce.
Mr Singh's brother, said that Sarel had migrated from India four years ago "in the hope of finding a better life in Australia."
Sarel Singh
But Sarel had told his brother, who lives in India, that his job at the Melbourne factory was 'hell' and he was planning to return home.
He was standing on a ladder hosing down a machine when he was swept into it and instantly decapitated.
Mr Tim Kennedy of the NUW said he and the factory workers were shocked by the decapitation.
"It is absolutely horrific in a civilized society that we have now the fact that these things still occur, it is just not acceptable."
The poultry factory increased the risk to workers by speeding up the machinery so that 20 to 40 birds a minute could be processed.
But instead of packing up to 40 birds a minute, the machine was working at a speed that was processing 183 birds a minute.
