MOLTEN METAL TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

MOLTEN METAL TRAGEDY.

FIVE WORKERS KILLED. : VICTIMS' TERRIBLE AGONY. .'■'• Five men were burned to ' death by molten metal at the steel works of Messrs Dorman Long and Co., Middlesbrough, recently, , . " ' ;.; yJ An enormous ladle, containingV4o/foniJll of jmtal and slag, crashed to the ground, and red-hot liquid was sphished like * - * shower hath en eight men, causing agwifc*-" "* ing injuries, from which five of the victims i-rl aied in hospital. - , <„ ' The * names of the dead are-:— Ernest' V 1 Benson, aged 26; .'George Dickson,-aJedr-t?-.' 26; G. Robertson, aged 19; W. FlannigM,' - aged 48, and George Thompson. , t James Norton, aged 40, was not rn pected to recover. ■ It is believed ,th» accident was caused by .the.,: snapping of a wire rope,- - which ; .*' -. Was used, to hoist the, ladle to change il:« ~ steel - furnace _," : ; ~\ \ _As the rope snapped showers of horning ,*;. . liquid; were flung/around,'and the eigh«fil men ' hear by were ; frightfully injured, -in ! i m some cases clothing was burned cut ';Ukefit|al| match within a second by thj fierce'.heilfifj&Sf ? Fellow-workmen ruahed .- to the spot,. : . ambulances and doctors were called t and;, the men were taken i:o the North Riding : ; •, Infirmary. ■' . , - l News of the accident spread quickly* - and the hospital was surrounded by so many anxious inquiries that the police > : had to be called in.to coi.lrol the crowd.v' s Acids in the molten metal aggravated the wounds of all the men', and in every : case clothing was wholly or partially ~• burned off. . \ •