Boy Burned by Salt Blast
Sprayed with molten salt by an explosion at the Utah Fire Clay Co., Salt Lake City, a nine-year-old boy suffered first, second and third degree burns of the face and left leg.
The strange mishap occurred when the lad—Dion Anderson, and another boy were in a 32-foot kiln at the fire clay company, watching employes glaze clay sewer pipes by pouring salt into a firebox in the kiln. The vapors glaze the pipes, company executives said, and molten salt remains.
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