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”
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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.)
Thankfully, there is likely a threshold of pain that would induce a loss of consciensness.
no masks for fumes......was about 40 years ago....gloves glasses, aprons....lots of acid burns on hands and arms...also quite warm
Worst case, he may have swallowed or inhaled some. Be pretty quick if so.
Wonder which tank
Chroming often entails dipping in charged copper and nickel first
Yep, that would do it.
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.
you need a rim shot after that?
Thats gonna leave a mark.
The company will be sued into near bankruptcy, and the work will be sent to China or Vietnam
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yup
Ya think?
They tried to rescue him, but he fought them off valiantly.
He had to have ingested it...
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...
Man, I hate it when that happens.
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.
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.”
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.
The only thing worse would be if he had lived. It would have been hell.
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.
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