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Worker dies after falling into vat of sulfuric acid
NY Post ^ | February 11 2019 | Chris Perez

Posted on 02/12/2019 8:07:34 AM PST by oh8eleven

Fellow employees found Daniel Hill, also known as “Moose,” fully submerged in the chemical tank and tried rescuing him, according to HometownLife.

The 54-year-old grandfather was taken to a decontamination room and then rushed to a hospital, but he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

It’s unclear how long Hill — who worked for Michigan Seamless Tube in South Lyon — was in the vat or how he fell in. Local officials told reporters that the acid inside was heated to temperatures of at least 160 degrees.

Authorities are investigating the incident — described by MST management as a “serious industrial accident”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: PGR88
The company will be sued into near bankruptcy, and the work will be sent to China or Vietnam

Workers' Compensation pays for such deaths and accidents. The purpose of which is to pay fair benefits/compensation and avoid lawsuits. There have been cases in which the employer so ignored safety that the company was criminally negligent and lawsuits were permitted. (One contractor, for example, had his employees dig a deep ditch without any shoring. Some refused to work in the ditch although one employee did follow orders and was crushed to death when the ditch collapsed--big jury award and jail time for the employer.)

21 posted on 02/12/2019 8:24:26 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: oh8eleven

Thankfully, there is likely a threshold of pain that would induce a loss of consciensness.


22 posted on 02/12/2019 8:28:05 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: rey

no masks for fumes......was about 40 years ago....gloves glasses, aprons....lots of acid burns on hands and arms...also quite warm


23 posted on 02/12/2019 8:30:42 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Worst case, he may have swallowed or inhaled some. Be pretty quick if so.


24 posted on 02/12/2019 8:31:01 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: relictele

Wonder which tank

Chroming often entails dipping in charged copper and nickel first


25 posted on 02/12/2019 8:32:53 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: oh8eleven

Yep, that would do it.


26 posted on 02/12/2019 8:32:55 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: dpetty121263

I was present in an ethanol plant when a truck made a delivery of sulfuric acid, and somehow the acid got transferred into a large tank of sodium hydroxide used for automated tank cleaning.

It was an earthquake that bounced the caustic tank off its floor anchors, but the tank fortunately held.

External delivery lines were radically redesigned.


27 posted on 02/12/2019 8:39:18 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: stormer

you need a rim shot after that?


28 posted on 02/12/2019 8:41:39 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: oh8eleven

Thats gonna leave a mark.


29 posted on 02/12/2019 8:42:38 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: PGR88

The company will be sued into near bankruptcy, and the work will be sent to China or Vietnam

yup


30 posted on 02/12/2019 8:42:41 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: oh8eleven
described by MST management as a “serious industrial accident”

Ya think?

31 posted on 02/12/2019 8:45:37 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty and hateful and use and racist slurs but feel morally superior.)
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To: stormer

They tried to rescue him, but he fought them off valiantly.


32 posted on 02/12/2019 8:47:10 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty and hateful and use and racist slurs but feel morally superior.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

He had to have ingested it...


33 posted on 02/12/2019 8:49:32 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: relictele

An oil refinery at St. Paul Park, MN had a similar accident.
An employee fell into a tank of liquid asphalt, holding at 400 + degrees...


34 posted on 02/12/2019 8:53:53 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: oh8eleven

Man, I hate it when that happens.


35 posted on 02/12/2019 8:55:52 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: originalbuckeye

It happened to Hope on Days of Our Lives when she wanted to leave the show so that is how they killed her off, however 10 years later she came back as her same character with a small band aid on her face, lol.


36 posted on 02/12/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: oh8eleven

Not dead when he fell in.

In the article it states:

“The 54-year-old grandfather was taken to a decontamination room and then rushed to a hospital, but he eventually succumbed to his injuries.”


37 posted on 02/12/2019 8:58:36 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Dont tread and Live
You won't find feminazis demonstrating to get into this kind of work. You might not even find them demanding comparable pay by comparing comparable office type jobs because there are none.

Back when I was a pup majoring in labor economics, they WERE trying to compare secretarial work with long haul track drivers and claim wages should be similar.

38 posted on 02/12/2019 8:59:23 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: oh8eleven

The only thing worse would be if he had lived. It would have been hell.


39 posted on 02/12/2019 9:02:57 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: jjotto

That is amazing. That reaction is highly exothermic — makes a lot of heat. It’s basically an explosion.

Sulfuric acid is strongly hygroscopic. It sucks water from anything it touches. It also oxidezes — burns — most organics.

So this poor bustard got fried and dried before he died. Ugly, ugly way to go.


40 posted on 02/12/2019 9:08:04 AM PST by IronJack
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