Friday, July 10, 2009

Man dies after falling into vat of chocolate in NJ


HERSHEYS ANYONE?

CAMDEN, N.J. - 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.

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