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Ice is piled up outside Ice Delivery Inc., where a worker was trapped in a storage room full of ammonia fumes on Aug. 13, 1965.
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Firemen carry ice plant employee Carl Littrell out of the building.
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An unconscious Carl Littrell is carried to an emergency vehicle before being rushed to St. Joseph s Hospital. Previous Next
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Worker freed at ice plant in 1965
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
On Aug. 13, 1965, an overhead coil carrying ammonia gas broke and fell at an ice plant on Cass Street. As it fell, the coil toppled bags of ice which buried a worker up to his chest.