I've toured one in Jamaica. We were given footwear to wear around the facility, so as to save our own. There is a stickiness you can't escape outside at their facility, and being in that climate allot of the initial processing is done outside (stripping of cane stalks, chopping of stalks, etc.), it makes sense.
And I don't think I'd ever want the job of clean up crew after a spill. I was watching one of those "disaster shows" on I think the History Channel and they showed where a massive tank of molasses collapsed, sending 1000's if not millions of gallons into the surrounding community and killing many people. It coated people like an oil spill does animals and they basically drowned in it, unless the actual impact from the tank debris killed them.
I believe safety standards have increased hugely since those days, and since my tour of the Jamaican facility back in the 70's.
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