Ouch - Sounds horrific

PureAppleJuice · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:43

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...plunges-into-vat-of-caustic-soda-1670222.html

A man has described how a young boy screamed for help after plunging through the roof of a derelict building into a vat of caustic soda.

The nine-year-old, named locally as Brooklyn Briggs, was playing football with friends in a car park in Rawmarsh, Rotherham, when he went to retrieve the ball from the roof of a disused workshop.

He was climbing to reach the ball when the roof of the building gave way and the boy crashed to the ground below, landing in a tank containing a chemical once used to strip furniture....

Sorry if it's a repost.

AtlanticP · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:46

Read that yesterday, sounds painfully horrible. Hope he makes a good recovery and the people that left the CS are punished.

Tummy · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:46

Walk it off.

Sankari · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:48

That'll learn him.

antijoke · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:49

Sounds horrific.

aardvark · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:49

lucky to be alive - people who fall in caustic soda usually die - it must have been relatively dilute for him to survive.

latercomer2 · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:50

The people who left the chemicals should be prosecuted.

phil675 · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:52

A few years ago a teacher would always tell a story about a boy from his village or whatever who did the same thing, fell through a roof getting a ball and drowned in a vat of paint or something. I thought it was bs to discourage climbing on roofs but seeing this story made me think, wow, must have actually happened.

gillywibble · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:55

Ouch.

AtlanticP · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:55

Tummy said:
Walk it off.

Am I the only person that doesn't get this comment :confused:

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:56

How horrible, I hope he recovers.

aslco · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:10

AtlanticP said:
Am I the only person that doesn't get this comment

yeah i didn't really get it haha maybe a joke as to it can't be too serious? lol?

Anyway i hope the guy doesn't suffer too much from this. And surely its illegal to leave such dangerous chemicals behind?

blix · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:11

Welshy · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:11

AtlanticP said:
Read that yesterday, sounds painfully horrible. Hope he makes a good recovery and the people that left the CS are punished.

latercomer2 said:
The people who left the chemicals should be prosecuted.

Why should they be to blame? :confused:

It's not their fault someone fell through the roof...it's not exactly something that would be expected to happen.

danielmp007 · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:13

Cilit bang! Cleans everything.

Sh3rlock · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:14

Argh, sounds rough.

*Remembers Fight Club caustic soda on hand scene*

bledd · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:15

christ

that stuff eats through anything, poor kid

AtlanticP · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:15

Welshy said:
Why should they be to blame? It's not their fault someone fell through the roof...it's not exactly something that would be expected to happen.

Judging by the images shown of the building yesterday mate it was pretty run down, used to be a furniture stripping factory apparently. They shouldn't have left such large amounts of chemicals unattended or unsupervised. Prevention is always better than cure.

The Dread Pirate · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:17

Poor boy, I do hope he recovers.

...however while quite tasteless I couldn't resist

danielmp007 said:
Cilit bang! Cleans everything.

Bang and your skin is gone

semi-pro waster · 17 Apr 2009 at 14:19

AtlanticP said:
Am I the only person that doesn't get this comment

It's a phrase often used in football for any injury, occasionally up to and including serious ones so it links to him fetching his ball.

Sounds horrible though, I hope he makes a full recovery.