They didn't fall, they were cleaning the tank without appropriate safety equipment and became stuck in the sludge as it hardened. Here's the original police rep

They didn't fall, they were cleaning the tank without appropriate safety equipment and became stuck in the sludge as it hardened. Here's the original police report, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22066069/report.pdf, via https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8py9/new-documents-detail-harrowing-crisis-in-which-workers-were-trapped-in-chocolate-sludge https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8py9/new-documents-detail-... EDIT: AP News (which Business Insider is citing) appears to have recycled earlier reporting from immediately after the incident, before the media had their facts straight. The Vice article is from June 22nd, whereas contemporaneous reports were from June 9th and 10th.