As workplace accidents go, it could have been worse: a pair of Pennsylvania factory workers had to be rescued after falling waist-deep in a chocolate tank.
The employees at the Mars Wrigley confectionery factory in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania – which produces M&Ms and Dove chocolate, among other products – were unharmed but also unable to escape the sticky situation on their own, with emergency responders needing to cut a hole in the side of the tank to extricate them.
Both men – who had fallen into the tank at around 1:51pm – were freed within a couple of hours, with the first out by 3:10pm and the second by 3:25pm, before being taken to a local hospital.
“We can confirm both people have been taken offsite for further evaluation. We’re extremely grateful for the quick work of first responders,” the company told the New York Post.
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the incident, and hopefully will examine related safety violations at the same factory where employees were attacked and dumped in the garbage by squirrels, shrunk with TV-based teleportation, and turned into giant blueberries.
