Posted on 07/22/2005 9:04:22 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
I am a Republi_Cat!
Here's a whole page full of them.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/manholes/manhole.html
So, you're suggesting that she just lay there after crashing?
Just laying there on 140 degree cover is going to get you a nice first degree burn that hurts for a while, unless you're stupid enough to lay there while being slowly cooked. It's not going to leave a lasting mark in the matter of a second or two, or you'd hear plenty of stories about kids being branded while falling down in the streets while playing.
This also didn't happen during the daytime, it happened after midnight when you don't have a reasonable expectation that a manhole cover is going to be extremely hot.
If there was steam hot enough to burn comming out around the edges of the cover, that in itself would be a hazard that the utility would be required to prevent.
The utility has a duty to make sure that people aren't comming in contact with things that hot in a public place.
If she got burned by steam after going down a manhole, that wouldn't be the utility's responsibility.
Having the manhole cover itself be that hot means the utility was negligent.
A lot of manhole covers say "Neenah Foundry Company- Neenah, WI" which could be the source of an "N" and an "O."
No, Silly. Then we'd blame the negligent parents.
I guess only a lot of newer covers are from Neenah--one of the larger construction castings foundries in the world.
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