FELL INTO BOILING WATER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 1

FELL INTO BOILING WATER

DEATH OF FACTORY WORKER Press Assooiatioii HAWERA, Tuesday. Through falling into a vat of boiling water at Mountain Road Dairy Factory,- Eltham, on April 12, Mr. Leonard Kilpin, aged 25 years, single, employed as first assistant, suffered such severe scalds that he died in hospital four days later. No one saw the accident, but in hospital the injured man told his - brother that his foot slipped and he fell backward into the vat. The vat, which measured 6ft by 2ft, contained boiling water 2ft deep. YVhen the accident occurred Mr. 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 the hospital in a delirious state.

An inquest was held today, when the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to toxaemia following severe scalds accidentally received. As a rider he added: “In my opinion factories should have some better system of providing boiling water other than leaving it in open vats.”