They didn't fall, they were cleaning the tank without appropriate safety equipment and became stuck in the sludge as it hardened. Here's the original police report, <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf</a>, via <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8py9/new-documents-detail-harrowing-crisis-in-which-workers-were-trapped-in-chocolate-sludge" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8py9/new-documents-detail-...</a><p>EDIT: AP News (which Business Insider is citing) appears to have recycled earlier reporting from immediately after the incident, before the media had their facts straight. The Vice article is from June 22nd, whereas contemporaneous reports were from June 9th and 10th.
I know this shouldn't be funny, I know it meant to illustrate how the big corporation is bad or some larger message.<p>I laughed, because its funny - if you believe in the afterlife, imagine for a moment that you have to explain "yeah, I drowned to death in chocolate" upon arrival.<p>Yes, I'm sure there are many safety issues at Mars-Wrigley (there are a great many OSHA violations at every industrial facility), but this is still funny.
> <i>A Pennsylvania confectionary factory is being fined more than $14,500</i><p>I wonder if the fine fits what happened to the two people. From the linked article in the OP's article:<p>> <i>Emergency responders were able to free the pair by cutting a hole in the bottom of the tank, officials said. Both were taken to hospitals, one by helicopter.</i>
Could have been the plot for the movie "Consuming Passions"<p><i>A satire about what happens when three men are accidentally shoved into a vat of chocolate in a confectionery factory, and chocolate lovers favour the resulting confections.</i>
I love that they mention the amount as “five figure”, imagine the possibilities with that many figures! We’re getting way passed unsigned small ints here!
Your default feelings should be horror, people rescued from these cooking vats alive can have all their skin peeling off before they die anyway.<p>Lucky they didn't fall, they were just working in the vat and it hardened, see the original report -<p><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf</a>