Gapers Block has ceased publication.

Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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WBEZ's Chip Mitchell and the Center for Public Integrity's Jim Morris tell the story of Carlos Centeno, a temporary worker who died after being burned on 80% of his body when the tank he was cleaning suddenly filled with near-boiling water and citric acid. It took more than an hour and a half to get him to a burn unit.

 
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