SCALDED TO DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1930, Page 7

SCALDED TO DEATH

FALL INTO BOILING WATER 0

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

HAWERA, May 6

Through falling into a. vat. of boiling water at the Mountain. Road Dairy Factory, Eltham, on April 12, Leonard Kilpin, 25 years of age, a single man employed as first assistant, sustained such severe scalds that he died at the hospital four days later. No one witnessed the accident, but in the hospital the injured man told his brother that his foot slipped, and he fell backwards into a six by two vat of boiling water two feet deep. When the accident occurred, Kilpin did not tell anyone, but sometime later, when unable to bear the agonies any longer, he informed the manager that he had been scalded. He reached the hospital in a delirious state. He recovered for a time, but toxaemia developed fatally. The Coroner this afternoon returned a verdict that death was due to toxaemia, following on severe scalds accidentally sustained. As a rider he added: “In my opinion the factories should provide some better system of providing boiling water other than leaving it in open vats.”