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Mars Wrigley Fined After Two Factory Workers Fell into Chocolate Tank

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17 pointsgeorgecmu14 comments

They didn't fall, they were cleaning the tank without appropriate safety equipment and became stuck in the sludge as it hardened. Here's the original police report, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf, via https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8py9/new-documents-detail-...

EDIT: AP News (which Business Insider is citing) appears to have recycled earlier reporting from immediately after the incident, before the media had their facts straight. The Vice article is from June 22nd, whereas contemporaneous reports were from June 9th and 10th.

Thanks for sharing this!

It's yet another reason why I will stick with my pull on work boots. (I have a pathological hate of laces, I dont think I own a single shoe with them)

I know this shouldn't be funny, I know it meant to illustrate how the big corporation is bad or some larger message.

I laughed, because its funny - if you believe in the afterlife, imagine for a moment that you have to explain "yeah, I drowned to death in chocolate" upon arrival.

Yes, I'm sure there are many safety issues at Mars-Wrigley (there are a great many OSHA violations at every industrial facility), but this is still funny.

> A Pennsylvania confectionary factory is being fined more than $14,500

I wonder if the fine fits what happened to the two people. From the linked article in the OP's article:

> Emergency responders were able to free the pair by cutting a hole in the bottom of the tank, officials said. Both were taken to hospitals, one by helicopter.

Could have been the plot for the movie "Consuming Passions"

A satire about what happens when three men are accidentally shoved into a vat of chocolate in a confectionery factory, and chocolate lovers favour the resulting confections.

I love that they mention the amount as “five figure”, imagine the possibilities with that many figures! We’re getting way passed unsigned small ints here!

> way passed unsigned small ints

I think bfloat would be a much more appropriate format for fines. Or a similar decimal float.

"Oompa loompa doompety doo..."

Slugworth should have just sicced OSHA on willy wonka.

They warned him, but Augustus insisted on going directly to the source.

Augustus!!!

character in Willy Wonka.

Your default feelings should be horror, people rescued from these cooking vats alive can have all their skin peeling off before they die anyway.

Lucky they didn't fall, they were just working in the vat and it hardened, see the original report -

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf

Add a few zeros and they might care. Ridiculous.

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