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Death By Chocolate

Seriously.

A guy in Pennsauken, NJ was on his second week of a new job at Cocoa Services factory, in which he fed solid chocolate into a giant melting vat, when he fell into the vat.  He was fatally injured by one of the agitators before anyone could shut the machinery down.  Firefighters had to remove his body from the vat and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Setting aside the tragedy of wasted chocolate…

Inevitably, the family is adamant that their kinsmen was not a careless man and are perplexed over how such an accident could have occurred given the improbability of falling into a giant vat from 9 feet above it in an industrial setting.

Does anyone else smell litigation?

What an absurd thing to say:  he’s a very careful person, I don’t understand how he could trip and fall.

 

Posted on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 06:37PM by Registered CommenterWillowmist | Comments2 Comments

Reader Comments (2)

Doesn't the state have Workers' Comp? If so, there would be no litigation issues. Just wondering.
July 9, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMom
They do have worker's comp - what do you pay a family for a temp labourer who was killed in a vat of chocolate exactly? (Doesn't anyone else have the Smothers Brother playing in their head?) There's always litigation issues. You'd know that if you were American.
July 9, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWillowmist

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