Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200514461 - Two employees drown in storm sewer following downpour

Accident Summary Nr: 200514461 -- Report ID: 0552700 -- Event Date: 07/26/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311348114	07/27/2007	1623	237110	Lametti And Sons Inc

Abstract: At approximately 3:30 p.m. on July 26, 2007, Employees #1 and #2, of Lametti and Sons, Inc., were working in a 90 in. diameter pipe of a storm sewer system when a half-hour rain storm occurred in the drainage area of the storm sewer. To escape the onrush of water, they attempted to reach and then ascend a shaft, but the storm caused the water in the shaft to rise from approximately 6.5 ft to 18 ft in a period of two minutes. Employees #1 and #2 drowned. Employee #1's body was found the next day. Employee #2's body was retrieved two days later at the termination point of the storm sewer system, near the spillway into the Mississippi River. The storm was later described as a fifty-year rainstorm.

Keywords: SEWER, STORM, CONSTRUCTION, DROWN, WATER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Pipeline		Alteration or rehabilitation		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000		8	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	311348114			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Waterproofing Fatality Cause: Drown, non-lethal fall
2	311348114			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Waterproofing Fatality Cause: Drown, non-lethal fall

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