Ton of melted chocolate leaks on to road outside German factory
Traffic is choc-a-block! A ton of melted chocolate leaks onto a road outside German sweet factory
- Storage tank at DreiMeister factory in west Germany broke, spilling chocolate
- A ton of liquid chocolate leaked on to a nearby street, where it quickly hardened
- Fire brigade and specialist cleaners spent two hours cleaning up the mess
- Factory boss said there was no major damage and it will reopen Wednesday
It’s usual to indulge in some chocolate around Christmas, but one town in Germany found itself inundated after a ton of the sweet stuff spilled on to a street.
Residents in the town of Westönnen, 25 miles west of Dortmund, were left in a sticky situation on Monday night when a storage tank at the DreiMeister factory failed.
The fire brigade were called around 8pm after the liquid mass seeped out of the factory and on to a nearby street, where it hardened.
Firemen and specialist cleaners had to be called in after a ton of liquid chocolate spilled from a factory in west Germany before hardening along the street
The road was closed for two hours while a specialist cleaning company was called in to remove the ten-square-metre spill.
Local newspaper Soester Anzeiger said that a ‘small technical problem’ had led to the spillage, without going into details.
Company boss Markus Luckey said there was a problem with one of the tanks, but production would resume again on Wednesday.
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Having to stop production just before Christmas ‘would have been a catastrophe’ he said, adding: ‘It was only a small thing. There was no major damage.’
DreiMeister is a luxury chocolate-maker that specilaises in handmade treats sold through specialist retailers.
The company has 130 regular employees and around 50 to 80 seasonal workers.
A leak in a storage tank at the DreiMeister factory, in the town of Westönnen, caused the problem which took two hours to fix
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