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A 54-year-old Michigan man died hours after he fell into a large tank of sulfuric acid at a manufacturing plant on Saturday.
It is unclear how long Daniel Hill was in the vat, or how he ended up there, but his coworkers at Michigan Seamless Tube suffered at least 160-degree chemical burns when they pulled the fully submerged man from the tank around 12:20 p.m.,according to The Detroit News.
“Other employees, co-workers saw him in the tank,” South Lyon Fire Chief Robert Vogel told the publication. “He was completely submerged and was 100 percent covered in burns. The gentleman was trying to get out. They ran and grabbed him and pulled him out.”
“He was speaking when we were there,” Vogel continued. “He was walking and talking. Unfortunately, he passed. It was pretty extreme burns.”
Michigan Seamless Tube in South Lyon.Google
Employees pulled him from the vat and took him to a decontamination area as medics and police rushed to the scene, according toThe Detroit Free Press. He was then taken to University of Michigan Hospital where he died that night.
“This really is a tragedy and affects all of us,” South Lyon Police Chief Chris Sovik said, according to the Free Press.
Officials with the company said they are investigating the “serious industrial accident,” according to a statementthrough the fire department.
He leaves behind a wife, two daughters and two grandchildren. Friends have set up aGoFundMe pageto benefit the family. One person remembered Hill in a Facebook post, describing the incident as a “sudden tragedy.
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source: people.com
