Newton, July 10—At 5 o’clock this afternoon at the Fiber Manufacturing plant, Ray Setzer, Homer Matheson and J.L. Ledwell, while mixing the ingredients for a solution used in the manufacture of brake lining, were badly burned from the accidental ignition of a preparation of turpentine. Young Setzer’s arms and hands are burned so badly that the skin is peeling off, and his face and neck are also blistered but the wounds are not so serious as on the arms. Both Ledwell and Matheson are burned about the hands, arms and face but not so seriously as Setzer.
Matheson was pouring the solution of turpentine from a five-gallon can into a large kettle, and Setzer was stirring the ingredients with a stick when suddenly there was a flash of fire that enveloped all of them. It is supposed that a spark had been left under the kettle from a previous operation that caused the flash. Dr. Glenn Long has dressed the wounds of Setzer, but has not yet expressed an opinion as to their seriousness.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 11, 1925
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