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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Worker Jumps Into Vat of Acid to Save Colleague

A New Jersey roofer jumped into a vat of nitric acid solution to save a co-worker who had fallen 40 feet into the tank, fire officials said.

Rob Nuckols, 51, was working on the ground floor Monday morning at Swepco Tube LLC when his colleague Martin Davis plunged through a roof and into the vat of diluted acid and became fully submerged, officials said.

He jumped into the vat and was waist-high while he and three others pulled Davis out, Clifton Fire Chief Vince Colavitti told The Record of Woodland Park. The vat contained a 40 to 70 percent nitric acid solution used for cleaning metal tubing.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 4:04 PM

    Ten bucks on a dollar the guy who went into the acid to save his co- worker gets some sort of fine from OSHA.

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  2. AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM

    no doubt Osha will get involved and if they are anything near as bad as Mosha you can bet the rest of your money that the will inspect the entire operation and fine them for things only MOSHA can imagine or dream up.

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