(AP) - Authorities say a man died after fallinginto a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.

The Camden County prosecutor's office identified the victim as29-year-old Vincent Smith II of Camden. He was a temporary workerat the Cocoa Services Inc. plant.

The accident happened Wednesday morning as Smith was loadingchocolate into a vat where it's melted and mixed before beingshipped elsewhere to be made into candy.

Prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried toshut off the machine and two others tried to pull Smith out of the8-foot-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitatorthat mixes the chocolate.

Cocoa Services hires a second company - Lyons and Sons - to dothe mixing.