tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post7650864692647796831..comments2024-03-29T05:24:30.793-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Fraser vs. Younger & SonRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-78737385492752998772011-09-23T04:25:03.479-07:002011-09-23T04:25:03.479-07:00JessKidden, newspapers have always loved a nice go...JessKidden, newspapers have always loved a nice gory accident.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-17744601040916622402011-09-23T03:45:19.990-07:002011-09-23T03:45:19.990-07:00While doing US pre-Prohibition research on various...While doing US pre-Prohibition research on various US breweries, I've come across a number of brewery industrial accident stories- in many cases, they are the only brewery-related stories that made the local newspapers.<br /><br />Many were horse-pulled beer wagon accidents often involving children, but being crushed by kegs, boiled in kettles were common, as were a number of brewers' suicides.<br /><br />I guess I've "collected" them with the future thought of making a webpage of them but it just seems too ghoulish, even tho' the point would be that... well, things were rough back then.<br /><br />A similar accident to the one you've written about here occurred in the Ballantine brewery in Newark, NJ in 1886 and was covered by The New York Times, in somewhat graphic language.<br /><br />"(An engineer) was oiling the machinery when he was caught by a shaft of the machine and before it could be stopped, he was crushed to a pulp. The shaft pounded him every time it descended, crushed him to jelly."JessKiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13957063630653714731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-47885836583543865992011-09-23T02:52:26.541-07:002011-09-23T02:52:26.541-07:00Presumably the employees would not be wearing larg...Presumably the employees would not be wearing large crinolines, so it was relatively safer for hem.BryanBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550482701819539081noreply@blogger.com