Posted on 08/26/2019 12:21:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
She fell in while doing maintenance work
(Newser) – An Oregon woman almost died in an extremely unpleasant way after falling into a septic tank at her rural home, authorities say. Firefighters believe the Clackamas County woman was doing maintenance work when she fell into the tank, where she was trapped for up to three days, KPTV reports. "It looks like there was work being done on the septic tank," says Estacada Rural Fire District No. 69 division chief Richard Anderson. "There was a tractor in the area and a hole had been dug exposing the tank. And then she had fallen through about a 2-foot by 2-foot hole in kind of the rusted metal top of the tank." The woman, who lives alone, was found Tuesday afternoon when her daughter, who hadn't heard from her in a few days, drove up to check on her.
Anderson says the woman was found lying with her face just above the raw sewage. He says she was alert enough to grab the handle of a tool that was lowered down, KATU reports. "She was able to grab ahold of that, sit up slightly and they were able to get some other poles, a strap around her back and under her arms and then hoist her up out with that," the chief says. He says she had no visible injuries, but was taken by helicopter to a Portland hospital to be checked out for possible infections and the effects of having been in a space with limited oxygen for a long time. A neighbor says that according to relatives, the woman is expected to make a full recovery.
I wouldn't consider uncovering the lid as maintenance in the tank. Bad she fell in, but that reason would be less dramatic than what the article implies, that she was on a DIY mission to work on her tank.
"There was a tractor in the area and a hole had been dug exposing the tank..."
Looks a tad more involved than merely digging a hole to expose the lid for the pumping truck.
In any case, Manuel OKelley wins the thread pun at post #25. That's what is truly important here! :)
That doesn’t even make sense. Even if there had been work done on the septic tank by someone else, you just don’t reach down and lift the top off those things. It requires the use of a machine at least. Ours is a concrete covering. When it’s pumped out, they use the forks on the whatever machine that use to dig down to the top of the septic tank to lift it off the tank. Who would uncover a septic tank and walk away and leave it open? Someone’s not paying attention.
“”whatever machine that use to dig down””
Correction - THEY USE to dig down....
Most women I know from Oregon pretty much match that women’s history.
A recursive one at that.
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