Russian Mother 'Boiled Alive' in Molten Caramel at Candy Factory in Russia
A woman in Russia has died due to an accident at a confectionary factory.
According to Mail Online, 36-year-old Natalia Nemets was "boiled alive" while cleaning a huge tank at the Slavyanka confectionery factory at Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region of Russia on Oct. 20. The woman died due to a freak accident that involved molten caramel unexpectedly cascading into the tank.
Witnesses revealed that no sound came from Nemets, who did not cry or speak when the accident occurred. Other factory workers were only able to see the woman's legs sticking out of the tank filled with molten caramel. And even if they wanted to, they were unable to do anything to save the mother-of-one.
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"She was cleaning the mixer when the caramel suddenly began to flow into the bowl," a co-worker told Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "She got boiled alive, this is true. The caramel was removed from the giant bowl and only then was her body was taken out."
It seems Nemets really was boiled alive, as molten caramel can reportedly reach temperatures as high as or even more than 212 degrees.
The other workers at the factory did not witness the accident and they only discovered Nemets in the tank when they realized she was not at her usual place at the factory. The next thing they saw was the woman's legs poking out from the caramel in the tank.
"Nobody could explain how it could happen," one worker said, explaining that the boiling hot caramel is only one of the things that could have killed Nemets. "Besides the fact that it was boiling caramel, in the bowl, there are moving blades that constantly mix the caramel."
An investigation is already underway, with results expected to be released in 15 days. The Russian newspaper reports that there are two possibilities as to how Nemets ended up in the tank. For one, she could have simply lost her balance and fell into it. The other possibility is that she had fainted due to the high temperature in the room.
Local reports claim that management at the Slavyanka confectionery factory at first planned to cover up the accident, threatening to fire workers who would talk. This is also not the first death in the factory this year.
