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Title: Man Falls Into Chocolate and Dies Post by: KCJackie on July 08, 2009, 05:24:58 PM Man Falls Into Vat of Chocolate, Dies
AP posted: 44 MINUTES AGO ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyShocked:: CAMDEN, N.J. July 8 – Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant. The Camden County prosecutor's office identified the victim as 29-year-old Vincent Smith II of Camden. He was a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services Inc. plant. The accident happened Wednesday morning as Smith was loading chocolate into a vat where it's melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy. Prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull Smith out of the 8-foot-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitator that mixes the chocolate. Cocoa Services hires a second company — Lyons and Sons — to do the mixing. |