FACTORY ASSISTANT’S DEATH

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4449, 8 May 1930, Page 1

FACTORY ASSISTANT’S DEATH

FALLS INTO BOILING VAT. Haw era, May (J. Through falling into a vat of boiling water at the Mountain Road Dairy Factory, Eltliam, on April 12 Leonard Kilpin, 25 yearsjjf age, a -ingle man employed as first assistant, sustained such severe scalds that ho died in hospital four days later. No one witnessed the accident, but in hospital the injured man told his brother that his foot slipped and lie fell backwards into a six feet bv two vat of boiling water two feet deep. When the accident occurred Kilpin did not tell anyone, but some time later, when unable to bear the agonies of his injuries any longer, he informed the manager that he had been scalded. He reached hospital in a delirious stale and recovered for a time, but toxaemia developed, which ended fatally.

The coroner this afternoon returned a verdict that death was due to toxaemia following severe scalds accidentally sustained. As a rider, he added: “In my opinion factories should provide some better system of providing boiling water other than by leaving it in npen vats.”