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Originally Posted by dar512
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serves her right.
The link contains a better
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Not just any manhole.
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crews were flushing a high-pressure sewer line at the time.
"It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled out and the DEP guys came running and helped me," Longueria told the Staten Island Advance.
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This is exactly why saturation coverage with CCTV is so important. When shit like that happens, I want to be able to watch it. Over and over again.
Mind you, I think the family have a partial case in the lawsuit:
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Sewer line workers are supposed to cut off pedestrian access to work sites or at least mark them with warning signs.
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Which implies that they hadn't, and furthermore
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For its part, the Department of Environmental Protection said its workers had turned away briefly to grab some cones when the incident occurred.
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I would have thought, safety barriers first, hole in the ground second. Unless they meant "grab
some
cones
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