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Death by chocolate: Man falls into 8-foot-deep vat of hot chocolate

Posted July 9th, 2009, 08:40 AM by Admin - 4 replies Post to Facebook Bookmark and Share

*insert clever chocolate-covered joke here*

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Man dies at chocolate factory

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.

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Old Posted July 9th, 2009, 09:39 PM

Aw that's sad. Like the one story of the man falling into the vast soup boiler, this guy was just doing his job. It's so unfortunate that while he was innocently doing his work he died...Poor him.
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Old Posted July 10th, 2009, 02:10 AM

Did anyone else get a flash back from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where the tubby kid falls into the chocolate river? :3

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Old Posted July 10th, 2009, 09:32 AM

News video of the incident... A lot gorier than I imagined.



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Old Posted July 10th, 2009, 10:12 PM

Death by chocolate indeed. Still, its such a sad incident that happened to him.
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