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.
It is a sad day indeed. Other than the fat boy who was the first to leave Willy Wonka’s factory, this must be the first person to fall in chocolate. Did they have to throw the chocolate out after they fished him out of the vat? Will Godiva now dip meat into their chocolate or would it be more appropriate to drizzle chocolate onto meat? An 8-foot-deep vat of chocolate, what a way to go!
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