Grip lost
A steelworker fell into a hot tar pit and was being pulled out when he lost his grip and sank to his death. He got about two thirds of a metre from the side before he lost his hold on the rope, slipped back into the liquid and went under. — Pittsburgh.
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Press, 14 January 1986, Page 33
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