Natalia Nemets
East2WestNewsNatalia Nemets, the woman killed by caramel.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time sweet treats have led to unusual deaths. The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 caused 21 deaths, but the case of Natalia Nements is stranger still.
The tragic story of Natalia Nemets boiled alive in a confectionary factory is perhaps one of the most gruesome and horrifying accidental deaths in recent memory.
The 36-year-old mother was busy at work in a candy factory in October 2017, in the Russian city of Stary Oskol. Suddenly, her colleagues noticed that she was missing.
They frantically searched the factory for Nemets and made a startling discovery – her legs poking out of a vat of molten caramel. Upon finding her, they knew that there was nothing that could be done to save her; Nemets was surely dead. In addition to the boiling hot caramel, the vat contained whirring blades to stir its contents.
Google EarthThe Slavyanka confectionary factory where Natalia Nemets worked.
One of Nemets’ co-workers told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that “she did not cry, no other noise was heard”. Another person added, “She got boiled alive, this is true”.
As for how Nemets found herself in the bowl with the deadly caramel, it is not clear.
The first theory was that the high temperature in the working room caused her to faint and fall into the bowl. The second is that she simply stumbled into the vat. It’s also been reported that Nemets was already in the vat cleaning it when caramel began flowing in.
Nemet’s death was the third one for the factory in under a year. The fuzzy details surrounding Nemets’ grisly boiling certainly brings the factory’s safety record to the forefront.
