Imagine working inside a large sewer interceptor and being swept away by the current. That’s a “water slide” trip no one would enjoy.
Yet it happened to a 37-year-old contract worker in Pierce County, Wash., back on March 21. The obvious question is: How does something like this happen? The man sustained only minor injuries – he was rescued, then treated and released at a local hospital – but it’s a minor miracle that he survived.
The man, an employee of Frank Coluccio Construction Co. in Seattle, was working in a temporary access shaft built for a project that involved lining of
