AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-1999
NSW: Hunter Valley fire claims second victim
SYDNEY, Dec 20 AAP - An explosion at a grain silo in the Hunter Valley earlier this
month has claimed a second life.
Ronald Brooker, 51, was one of three men who suffered horrific burns when a fireball
erupted inside the storage bin at Rutherford's Caines margarine factory, near Newcastle,
on December 6.
The Maitland man died at 6.30pm on Saturday in Royal North Shore Hospital, where he
had been in and out of surgery.
A hospital spokeswoman said his wife and three sons were by his bedside when he died.
Mr Brooker suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body in the fire.
His death follows that of co-worker Geoff Terry, 46, on December 8, in Sydney's Concord Hospital.
A third worker, 50-year-old Robert Anderson, remains in a critical but stable condition
in Royal North Shore with burns to 75 per cent of his body.
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KEYWORD: SILO (CARRIED EARLIER)
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