What a way to go.
From the article:
Quote:
A 66-year-old Swedish man died in an accident at a paper factory in western Sweden after falling into a cistern filled with hot lye late Tuesday night.
“He basically fell through the roof of the silo,” Ulf Maxén manager of the Munksjö Paper factory in Billingsfors where the accident took place, told The Local.
“The liquid was corrosive and was heated to somewhere between 70 and 80 degrees Celsius.”
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Note on chemistry: (of course.
) This is the part of the bleaching process of papermaking where the whitening chemicals (highly acidic) get extracted/neutralized by highly alkaline chemicals, typically oxygenated sodium hydroxide. In other words, he was dumped in a 170F concentrated aqueous solution of Drano.
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