Help, police, murder: Two workers fall into chocolate vat at Mars Wrigley factory
Luckily, the two workers were rescued instead of getting sucked up into a nearby tube
In the summer of last year, when the northern hemisphere’s sugary treats were at their stickiest, an accident occurred at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania’s Mars Wrigley factory: Two contract workers fell into a vat of Dove chocolate and were saved after a rescue team arrived to cut them out of their sweet, sweet prison.
Details of the incident have since surfaced and been reported by the BBC, which headlines the story not by pointing out how a serious industrial accident resembles a whimsical scene of child endangerment from a classic film but by pointing out that the factory has been fined $14,500 by the Occupational Safety And Health Administration (OSHA).
The report explains that the contract workers’ chocolatey dilemma required “more than two dozen rescuers” to solve and occurred because the two “were hired to clean tanks, and were not provided with proper safety training.”