A Japanese plant worker has died in a freak accident after 13 tonnes of molten metal were tipped all over him.
Kazuki Tada, 23, was working on Saturday morning beneath a huge bucket containing an alloy that had been heated to around 1,300 degrees Celsius (2,400 Fahrenheit) at a manufacturing plant, Japan Today reported.
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The bucket, which was suspended in mid air, overbalanced, pouring the molten metal on Tada, police said.
An investigation into the accident is under way in southwestern Japan, a local police spokesman said, according to the new agency AFP.