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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: wardaddy

I worked in plating inthe early 70s. Dangerous low-paid work. Open vats of deadly chemicals and only rubber aprons over street clothes. Company owned by hypocrite who violated EPA and common sense rules except when inspectors present. Quit to save my health.


41 posted on 02/12/2019 9:17:48 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’ve read of some horrible accidents of steelworkers who fell into molten vats of steel. Good Lord.


42 posted on 02/12/2019 9:19:55 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: hoosierham

I worked in a plating plant for a time in my youth. Because I was low seniority, I had to walk the flange of the acid tanks at the end of shift, with a long pole with a magnet and ‘fish’ out the parts that fell of the racks.


43 posted on 02/12/2019 9:25:08 AM PST by crosdaddy
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To: oh8eleven
I worked in an auto stamping plant in Detroit for almost 35 years and before and before OSHA and MIOSHA and subsequent lock out procedures were mandated, industrial accidents resulting in loss of limbs and even deaths were too common.

In the last 10 years of our company, we had one death at our Philadelphia plant and one at our Detroit plant. Both were a result of the employees ignoring the established safety procedures.

The Detroit death occurred when an electrician climbed a ladder at the back of the press shop to work on a control box about 20 ft. up on the wall and failed to lock out the overhead crane. He was hidden from the view of the crane operator on the shop floor who was moving a pallet of steel to the back of the shop. He was crushed against the wall by the crane.......

This was on a Saturday and it just happened that the plant safety manager was in the plant when call went out and he had to climb the ladder to get the employee down. The two had grown up together and were best of friends..........

44 posted on 02/12/2019 9:28:04 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: oh8eleven
The 54-year-old grandfather was taken to a decontamination room and then rushed to a hospital, but he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

There are times when putting a man out of his misery might be the kindest choice. Illegal, perhaps immoral but after a man is fully submerged into a vat of 160 degree sulfuric acid, he's not coming back from that and his suffering in those last moments had to be horrific if he was at all conscious.

45 posted on 02/12/2019 9:32:26 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: Vigilanteman
You won't find feminazis demonstrating to get into this kind of work.

Nope. Men don't do these jobs because they always dreamed of doing something difficult and dangerous. They do them because they pay a premium over other jobs requiring a similar skill level and they calculate that the pay advantage is worth the risk. Women almost never choose to take the higher pay when it has that sort of risk.

For all the whining about "toxic masculinity" the truth is that if men disappeared tomorrow then based on Bureau of Labor Statistics breakdowns of what sex does what, there would be nothing manufactured, nothing built, nothing repaired, nothing installed ever again.

46 posted on 02/12/2019 9:40:56 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: Dont tread and Live

Used to work around this same type environment, surrounded by huge vats of heated acids and other chemicals.

Instant death....................


47 posted on 02/12/2019 9:42:05 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: wardaddy

Yes, but before that the metal must be etched and ‘cleaned’ .......................


48 posted on 02/12/2019 9:44:05 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: stormer

Smother Brothers routine:

“I fell into a vat of chocolate and nearly drowned.”
“Wow. How did you get out?”
“I yelled, “Fire, fire!”
“What? Why did you yell ‘fire?’”
“Well, nobody was gonna come if I yelled, “Chocolate!”


49 posted on 02/12/2019 9:44:33 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Red Badger

Instant death?

Reading the story it sounds like he was still alive when they pulled him out. SHUDDER.


50 posted on 02/12/2019 9:45:41 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Where I worked the temperatures were in hundreds of degrees, and the liquids were molten solids.....................


51 posted on 02/12/2019 9:48:34 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Pardon me while I cringe...


52 posted on 02/12/2019 9:50:54 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I cringed a lot, especially since I was the one who took the temperature readings and maintained the recorders.....................


53 posted on 02/12/2019 9:52:11 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: oh8eleven; All
"Worker dies after falling into vat
of sulfuric acid...."


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54 posted on 02/12/2019 9:56:01 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Red Badger

I still remember reading the Novel “Shogun” years ago where the poor Sailor was repeatedly dunked into a Boiling Vat of Water over and over again by the Samurai.

They made his death long and tortuous.

Creeps me out to this day.


55 posted on 02/12/2019 9:56:08 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: oh8eleven

Prayers to his family and his co-workers. Not a way to go.


56 posted on 02/12/2019 10:04:38 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: woodbutcher1963
Not dead when he fell in.
Thx ... unconscious will do as a second choice.
57 posted on 02/12/2019 10:05:57 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
Could the fumes have made him disoriented, or even unconscious, before he fell in? I have no idea about sulfuric acid, but being overcome by the fumes is a common precursor in falling-in-the-vat type accidents.

I have no idea about the layout of the place, but there should have been a safety barrier of some kind to prevent simple slip and fall accidents. Did that fail? Was it missing? Was he taking a shortcut he shouldn't have been taking? Guys can get very casual about stuff they constantly work around. Then bad things happen.

58 posted on 02/12/2019 10:11:28 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Hot Tabasco
I worked in an auto stamping plant in Detroit for almost 35 years ...
I'll bet you can tell all kinds of tales.
59 posted on 02/12/2019 10:13:48 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: PGR88

“The company will be sued into near bankruptcy”

The corp. will be dissolved.


60 posted on 02/12/2019 10:20:30 AM PST by Rebelbase
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