Sweets can kill! Legal Pub has warned before of the danger. Obesity Link. Now there is even more disturbing evidence that sweets can be fatal. Take the case Vincent Smith II. Smith was an employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant. He fell into a vat of hot chocolate and died. At the time, Smith, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting. He apparently lost his balance and fell from a nine-foot high platform into the chocolate. The initial trauma was to his head from the vat's agitator which stirs the chocolate.
Three others were on the platform. Only Smith fell. One immediately shut the machinery off but it was too late. Cocoa Services Inc., owns the facility that is managed and operated by Lyons and Sons. The vat was 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide. The chocolate was being made for Hershey's when the accident happened. Smith was a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services Inc. plant.
While we extend our condolences to the family of Vincent Smith II, let us be reminded that perhaps there is yet another reason to watch what we eat.
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I hope he did not suffer
Hey, accidents happen. We all die of something sooner or later. I am sure OSHA will check to make sure there were no violations of any safety rules.
As I understand it, there was no foul play. He was throwing chunks of chocolate into the vat. He apparently slipped and fell in. He got caught in the agitator and suffered a fatal head injury.
The chocolate was boiling so it was probably an immediate death from the head injury and that he did not suffer much. But this was a grusome death nonetheless. My deepest sympathy to the family.
OmG! Death by Chocolate!
Beats death by hanging!
Funny story about a sad death.
What a sticky situation the factory has gotten into over this one...
There is a joke in here somewhere.....but out of respect for the deceased....I wont say what I want to say.
RIP
Lets hear the joke. Levity is a great healer.
Hard to sugar coat this outcome.
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