TONS OF BOILING DYE
MAN’S TERRIBLE DEATH A man named George Cowling employed by the Yorkshire Dyowar'e and Chemical Company, Selby, lias died from shock as the result of terrible scalds sustained while following his employment. Cisterns are used for extracting the dye from logwood. Three tons of dyewood go into each cistern, and five tons of dye is extracted. The boiling liquid is pumped off, and the dyewood refuse cooled off. Then the door is opened, the refuse taken out and burned. MiCowling was instructed to clear out a cistern, but in mistake, opened the door of another.
The foreman noticed the hot liquid escaping, and told the man ho was openin" the wrong cistern. Mr Cowling replied : ‘‘By God, I am.” * You hold tho lever ropo,” said the foreman, “ while I go and pump the liquid out." Meanwhile, Mr Cowling got his mate to hold the ropo while ho attempted to close the cistern door by hitting it with an iron bar. His efforts opened the doors instead, allowing five tons of boiling dye to fall over him, causing terrible injuries.
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Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 5
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183TONS OF BOILING DYE Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 5
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