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CONCORDIA AND ST ANTHONY, ST PAUL, MN 55107
Standard 5207030402 B
Standard 5207030206
Standard 19260800 F01
Standard 19260800 B01
Initial $50,000
Standard 19260800 D
Standard 5207030304
Two employees drown in storm sewer following downpour
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 esc ape the onrush of water, they attempted to reach and then ascend a shaft, but th e 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 term ination point of the storm sewer system, near the spillway into the Mississippi River. The storm was later described as a fifty-year rainstorm.
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