Man dies at chocolate factory

[Masa]

Man dies at chocolate factory

(CNN) -- An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's office. Vincent Smith II, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting when he fell in from a nine-foot high platform. He suffered a fatal blow to the head from the vat's agitator, a paddle-like mechanism used for stirring the chocolate.

According to the Camden County prosecutor's office, three other people were on the platform at the time. One was able to shut the machinery off quickly, but it was too late to save Smith. The facility, owned by Cocoa Services Inc., is managed and operated by by Lyons and Sons. The rectangular vat, which was 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide, was churning a batch of chocolate for Hershey's when the accident occurred, the prosecutor's office said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/09/new.jersey.chocolate.death/index.html

[JTRIX]

At first I thought the guy would die in some way like in the movie "Chocolate Factory"

[shadowstar]

Damn, what a way to go..

[zoolander]

I thought my cup of cocoa was a tad chunky this morning.

It's been said time and time again these kind of work is best reserved for the professionals. It's a shame really, but I guess with the tough economic times you see more people taking what would ordinarily be umpa lumpa jobs.

[TheBlackCatsLuck]

If I had to die in any way besides old age, this the way I would want to go. Drowning in chocolate.

[Tuffty]

^ I think there would be something deeply disturbing about drowning in chocolate. I associate chocolate with happy times, growing up at the beach etc so it must be pretty distressing to be completely asphyxiated by it and to have that knowledge that you're going to directly die through comfort food.

Either that or dude just really liked chocolate.