Capt. Michael Fountain of the Manalapan Police Department said the man was 26-year-old township resident Asaf Mohammad, who was arrested for fourth-degree criminal trespass
United Water spokesman Rich Henning said that workers “heard cries for help” coming from an area that has a wellhead with a storage tank when they arrived at the facility on Friday morning.
Jim Mastrokalos, director of operations for United Water, said the man was found in a decommissioned pipe that is 20 inches in diameter.
“He must have traversed through a basin and climbed up into a pipe for reasons unknown at this time,” Mastrokalos said.
United Water is investigating surveillance video to determine how Mohammed was able to get into the facility, which is surrounded by barbed wire fencing, Mastrokalos said.
After sections of the pipe were dismantled, emergency responders were able to get a harness around the man and pull him out of the pipe.
Mohammed was reportedly flown to Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center after being removed from the pipe
