Man dies after falling into vat of chocolate in NJ
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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July 10, 2009 at 7:56 am
radar2000
The only thing better than death by chocolate, is death by falling into a vat of beer!
July 11, 2009 at 8:19 pm
carrie
What’s really sad is that they used the name of a really good dessert in such a tragic accident….WHY did it have to be so obvious? I will have to think of a more appropriate headline.
July 13, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Tramp
How about ‘New Jersey Man ‘Bliss’ed to Death’?
July 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm
carrie
He Dove in thinking it was DOVE chocolate……nah, that’s just as bad as the original headline…..or they couldv’e said OH HENRY…..
July 14, 2009 at 11:00 am
Anon
I yelled “fire” when I fell into the chocolate.
July 18, 2009 at 6:49 pm
southerngirl
carrie:
bad, maybe, but yours was funnier!
at least i know i’ll recognize a whole lotta people when i show up in hell