Man boiled alive in soup vat via Agence France-Presse

[g8crasher]

Man boiled alive in soup vat

Article from: Agence France-Presse

From correspondents in Berlin

May 18, 2009 07:49am

A GERMAN worker was boiled alive in an empty industrial-sized soup vat while trying to clean it, tabloid newspaper Bild reported.

The 36-year-old, named only as Markus, was scrubbing the two-metre-high pot when the lid accidentally closed, automatically starting the jets of boiling water used to disinfect vegetables.

"For reasons we have still not cleared up, the disinfection process started too soon," a police spokesman told the paper.

By the time the unfortunate worker was found, he was already dead, Bild reported.

The factory in Luebeck in northern Germany, which employs around 200 people, has been "provisionally closed," according to its owners, Erasco - a subsidiary of US soup-maker Campbell's.

[Guest sy69u]

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[Guest jameslhm]

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[Guest Cklasse]

There is a lack of risk assessment and lock out tag out before starting this cleaning work.

[keltanky]

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