BURNED IN BLAZING OIL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 9

BURNED IN BLAZING OIL

AUCKLAND FOREMAN’S FATE

EXPLOSION IN AN OIL FURNACE.

CONSCIOUS FOR SEVEN HOURS.

DEATH ENDS SHOCKING TRAGEDY

Br Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. 'Auckland, Last Night.

Enveloped in a sheet of burning oil as the result of an explosion in the furnace he was attending at the factory of Grain Products Ltd., Newton, William Albert Dempsey was shockingly burned about 11 a.m. to-day. In. spite of his - agonising injuries Dempsey lingered. in a conscious state for seven hours before he died. l)einpsey 3 who wrs foreman at the factory, was aged 44 and had a wife and family. He was regelating the furnace when an internal explosion occurred. There was a deafening roar and the only other-workman in the basement at the time was horrified to see. Dempsey enveloped from head to foot in blazing oil. Dempsey was still covered with flames when the city fire brigade arrived. He was clad in a shirt and trousers and those garments, together with sacks that had been flung over him, were reduced to shreds by the flames. The blaze was eventually suppressed with chemicals and the man was rushed to the hospital but there was no hope for his recovery.