This is local to me. We do work with the contractor, they've been redoing a city street, paving sidewalks, utilities. I'm sure they were digging or breaking around the force main, and had spotters in the trench. They got them both to the hospital. One guy is never going home. Worker dies from injuries sustained in Branson water main break The business involved in Thursday’s water main break in Branson, Emery Sapp & Sons, confirms that one employee died Saturday from injuries sustained in the incident. www.ky3.com
That's terrible. Be interesting to know what happened.
This link says a little more. Water main break in Branson, Mo., injures 2 A water main break in a busy area of Branson injured two people. www.ky3.com
The fellow who passed away had jumped in to help the survivor. Tears me up to think of his folks and wife and kids, and how he acted in his last moments.
You think about it. A perfectly safe excavation could be a deathtrap with a main break like that. There's fragile stuff like AC, there are joints that lose integrity when you disturb or remove thrust blocks, there are many ways to fail a main under pressure. Too many joints in a short area and not enough blocks or megalug fittings, add the pipe and water weight if you undermine it.