FALL INTO BOILING WATER
DAIRY, FATALITY.
[By Telegraph, PqrqPress Association.] vHAWERA, May 6. , Through falling into a vat of boiling water at the .Mountain Road Dairy Factory, Elthamy-non April 12th., Leonard Kilpin;; aged 25, a single man employed as - first assistant, sustained! such severe scalds that he died at the: hospital four days ilater. .No ond witnessed the accident,, but in the hospital the injured man toldi his brother that his foot slipped, -and he fell backwards into a sixiby- two vat of boiling water two feet deep. When the accident occurred, Kilpin did not tell-any-one, but sometime later, when unable, to bear the agonies!of his injuries any longer, he informed the manager that he had been scalded. He reached the hospital in a delirious state. He recovered for a time; btit toxaemia developed fatally. -
The Coroner this' Afternoon returned a verdict that death 'Was due to toxaemia, following on severe scalds accidentallv sustained/" 1 ,
As a rider,- hb' add'ecl: "In my opinion the factories"'.shOhld provide some better svstem of ‘ b providing boiling water other than ’leaving it in open vats.” ‘‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1930, Page 4
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